Insurance Does Not Affect Adverse Events While Awaiting Surgery for Ankle Trauma in One System.

Introduction: Ankle injuries that are not properly cared for can have devastating effects on a patient's health and ability to maintain an active lifestyle. Recommended outpatient surgery may be difficult to obtain for many groups of patients, including those without insurance or minority races. Patients who are of low socioeconomic status also have worse outcomes following trauma.

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia: MR features.

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD) is a heart disease characterized by a total or partial fat replacement of the myocardium. A total of 30 patients were studied with a suspected diagnosis of ARVD. Clinical criteria used for evaluation of ARVD were: (a) ventricular origin arrhythmias with a left bundle branch block configuration, (b) T-wave inversion in the anterior precordial leads, (c) ventricular kinetic alterations observed using echocardiography and angiography and (d) cardiac failure when there are no pathologies attributable to other heart diseases.

[Introduction to the study of the Willis circle with transcranial color Doppler: methodological notes and preliminary experience].

To date, adult intracranial circulation has been studied only with pulsed-wave Doppler US, which is a useful diagnostic tool even though several technical and practical limitations are related to the difficult location of intracranial vessels. Recently, dedicated color-Doppler transducers have been proposed, which can pass through the skull which makes a physiologic barrier for the US beam: this technique has been called transcranial color-Doppler (TCD). We report on our personal experience with TCD in 30 healthy volunteers (12 men and 18 women, age range: 17-75 years) submitted to TCD for Willis circle imaging.

[A computer system for the systematization of MR findings in knee joint diseases].

An inexpensive, easy-access computer-based system is proposed, which was developed for the systematization of the clinical series of knee joint disorders studied with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). The system is based upon the integration of multimedia technology and Data Base Management Systems (DBMS). The hardware configuration for this project included an Apple Macintosh workstation based on a Motorola 68040 microprocessor and a customized application developed by the authors with the 4th Dimension software.