A Comparison of Pharyngeal Swabs and Tracheal Secretions for the Diagnosing of COVID-19.

The aim of this study was to compare the test results from patients who, within a short timescale, have been tested for COVID-19 using both a pharyngeal swab and tracheal secretion. Data were collected from the database of AUH, from patients hospitalized between 1 March 2020 and 1 March 2021 who, due to symptoms of COVID-19, were tested by a pharyngeal swab and by tracheal secretion. We found great agreement between oropharyngeal swab and tracheal secretion RT-PCR testing for the diagnosis of COVID-19, with 98.

Colonic Lesions, Cytokine Profiles, and Gut Microbiota in Plasminogen-Deficient Mice.

Plasminogen-deficient (FVB/NPan-plg(tm1Jld), plg(tm1Jld)) mice, which are widely used as a wound-healing model, are prone to spontaneous rectal prolapses. The aims of this study were 1) to evaluate the fecal microbiome of plg(tm1Jld) mice for features that might contribute to the development of rectal prolapses and colonic inflammation and 2) to assess the relevance of the inflammatory phenotype to the variability in wound healing in this model. The (plgtm1Jld) mice exhibited delayed wound healing, and they could be divided into 3 distinct groups that differed according to the time until wound closure.

Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis in Denmark--a nationwide investigation.

Background: Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis is a debilitating and painful disorder with an increased stimulation of the connective tissue in the skin and systemic tissues. The disease is associated with exposure to gadolinium-based contrast agent used in magnetic resonance imaging in patients with renal impairment.

Methods: The prevalence of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis has so far never been determined at a national level.

Structural and functional MRI in children with renal disease: first experience.

Purpose: This MRI study demonstrates our first clinical experiences with structural and functional evaluation in children with renal dysfunction, and communicates our experience with quantitative measurements of renal function compared to reference values found employing radionucleotides.

Material And Methods: We included renal impaired children who were recruited for clinical radioisotopic GFR measurements (n=8). MRI was performed 2 hours after Cr-EDTA measurements and was conducted using a protocol involving both anatomical/structural sequences and a dynamic contrast-enhanced sequence.

Two cases of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis after exposure to the macrocyclic compound gadobutrol.

Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) is a disease with progressive fibrosis. We describe two cases of NSF after exposure to a macrocyclic gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCA) gadobutrol, which has been considered as a low-risk agent compared to linear GBCAs. The first case had chronic kidney disease (CKD) Stage 3 and was exposed to 17.

Long-term follow-up in spinal dysraphism: outcome of renal function and urinary and faecal continence.

Objective: This study evaluated the renal and functional outcome in a cohort of adolescents with congenital spinal malformations followed at this department since birth. All patients went through same follow-up and algorithm of intervention during childhood. None of the patients was treated prophylactically, apart from receiving antibiotics.

Natural fill urodynamics and conventional cystometrogram in infants with neurogenic bladder.

Purpose: We compared findings from natural fill urodynamics and conventional cystometrogram in infants with neurogenic bladder.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively analyzed data from 19 infants undergoing 24-hour natural fill urodynamics and cystometrogram. The infants concurrently underwent ultrasound.

Reproducibility of contrast enhanced magnetic resonance renography in adolescents.

Purpose: We sought to determine the reproducibility of magnetic resonance imaging renography using 3 different mathematical models and 2 different approaches to convert the relative signal intensity into quantitative indices. Furthermore, we wanted to examine the influence of fluid intake on the obtained renal parameters.

Materials And Methods: A total of 10 healthy volunteers 13 to 16 years old were subjected to magnetic resonance imaging 3 times within 10 weeks, including an examination where fluid intake was increased.

Outcome of new surgical techniques in hypospadia repair.

Objective: Retrospectively we evaluated the outcome of all primary hypospadia operations done at Skejby Sygehus, Aarhus University Hospital, in the period May 1999 to March 2001. In that period the concept of treating hypospadias was changed from mainly the Mathiau operation and the preputial skin tube (Duckett) to the method of Barcat (and Koyanagi).

Material And Methods: During the study period 101 boys consecutively underwent treatment of hypospadias using mainly the techniques of Koyanagi, Barcat and the Glanular Approximation Procedure (GAP).

[Post-traumatic dislocation of the ulnar nerve in the cubital tunnel].

Traumatic luxation of the ulnar nerve is not uncommon (the incidence is 16.2%). The aetiologies are congenital, fracture of the medial epicondyle or from a luxation of the elbow.