Publications by authors named "A Wlderk"
Article Synopsis
- - The study aimed to explore how acute kidney injury (AKI) affects 3-month mortality rates in patients with acute ischemic stroke who underwent mechanical thrombectomy (MT).
- - After reviewing 3,314 studies, only 18 met the criteria for analysis, ultimately focusing on 3,229 patients, finding a pooled odds ratio for mortality at 3 months in AKI patients to be 5.8.
- - Results indicated that AKI significantly increased mortality risk, with diabetes as a contributing factor, whereas younger age and less contrast media appeared to be protective factors.
Aim: To investigate the optimum antiplatelet therapy regimen (APTR) for emergent carotid artery stenting following mechanical thrombectomy (MT) in stroke patients with tandem occlusion.
Methods: A literature search was performed on Pubmed/OVID/Cochran's CENTRAL database for studies from 2015 to 2022. Patient characteristics, antiplatelet regimen type, mTICI, 90 days-mRS, acute in-stent thrombosis (AIST), mortality, intracranial hemorrhage (ICH), and sample size were recorded.
Background: Contrast media used in mechanical therapies for stroke and myocardial infarction represent a significant cause of acute kidney injury (AKI) in acute medical scenarios. Although the continuous saline infusion line (CSIL) is a standard procedure to prevent thrombus formation within the catheter during neurovascular interventions of mechanical thrombectomy (MT), it is not utilized in percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI).
Methods: A systematic review of the incidence of AKI after MT for stroke treatment was performed.
Article Synopsis
- Enteropathic spondyloarthritides (eSpAs) are joint diseases linked to inflammatory bowel disease, with significant underreporting of arthritis cases due to medication masking symptoms and delayed diagnoses.
- In a study involving 190 eSpA patients, it was found that the median diagnostic delay was 48 months, with no notable difference between axial and peripheral types, though radiographic-axial SpA (r-axSpA) showed longer delays compared to non-radiographic cases.
- Key factors influencing diagnostic delays include age, education level, disease duration, and the presence of specific radiographic features, with men experiencing more spinal damage and higher diagnostic delays than women.
Purpose: To report a case of bilateral thalamic infarction (BTI) presenting as progressive thalamic dementia due to a midline tentorial dAVF (TdAVF) and to provide a systematic review of the literature.
Methods: We performed a systematic literature review of previously reported cases of bi-thalamic signal changes due to dAVF considering population characteristics, clinical presentation, imaging findings, treatments, and outcomes.
Results: We found 29 papers from 1985 until 2021 describing 35 cases of BTI dAVF-related.