Amyloid-targeting therapy has recently become widely available in the U.S. for the treatment of patients with symptomatic mild Alzheimer's disease (AD).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii (T. Nutricala) is a cnidarian of the Oceaniidae family that lives in the Mediterranean Sea. It is known as the immortal jellyfish since, through a process of cell development called transdifferentiation, it manages to return to a polyp state.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Theranostic approaches combining prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-PET/CT or PET/MRI with PSMA-targeted radionuclide therapy have improved clinical outcomes in patients with prostate cancer (PCa) especially metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer. Dural metastases in PCa are rare but can pose a diagnostic challenge, as meningiomas, a more common dural based lesions have been shown to express PSMA. The aim of this study is to compare PSMA PET parameters between brain lesions classified as dural metastases and meningiomas in prostate cancer patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To characterize the relationship between Decipher genomic classifier scores and prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT)-based metastatic spread.
Materials And Methods: We identified patients from four institutions who underwent PSMA PET/CT scans pretreatment for primary staging or postradical prostatectomy (RP) for suspected recurrence and had Decipher transcriptomic data available from biopsy or RP specimens. PSMA PET/CT-based patterns of spread were classified as localized (miT + N0M0) or nonlocalized (miN1M0 or miM1a-c).
Background: Targeted radionuclide therapy with Actinium-225-labeled prostate-specific membrane antigen agents (225Ac-PSMA) is currently being studied in clinical trials for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Compared to β-emitting therapeutic radionuclides, alpha-emitters (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (RCVS) is characterised by severe thunderclap headaches (with or without the presence of acute neurological symptoms) and segmental vasoconstriction of cerebral arteries that resolves spontaneously in a period of three months. Cases have been described in the literature with producing and non-producing masses of metanephrines. Within these reports, associations with cavernous haemangioma, medulloblastoma, colon cancer, paraganglioma, pheochromocytoma, uterine fibroids, among others were found.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To report a case of cervical pregnancy (CP) treated successfully with a conservative approach, and to conduct a review of the literature regarding conservative medical and surgical treatment.
Materials And Methods: Patient with cervical pregnancy treated pharmacologically with methotrexate (MTX) followed by dilation and curettage, with a satisfactory clinical course. A search of articles was conducted in Medline via PubMed, LILACS, SciElo and Google Scholar using the terms "cervical ectopic pregnancy," "conservative treatment," "curettage,» "methotrexate," "uterine artery embolization," "hysteroscopy.
Lithopedion ( = rock and = child) is a rare condition that only occurs in 1.5 to 1.8% of extrauterine pregnancies and in 0.
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