Neurological Complications of COVID-19 Infection: A Comprehensive Review.

The COVID-19 pandemic is well on its way to reaching endemic status across the globe. While the medical community's understanding of the respiratory complications induced by COVID-19 is improving, there is still much to be learned about the neurological manifestations associated with COVID-19 infection. This review aimed to compile relevant, available evidence of COVID-19-induced neurological complications and to provide information for each complication regarding symptomology, progression patterns, demographic risk factors, treatment, and causative mechanism of action when available.

Coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA): effect of bolus-tracking ROI positioning on image quality.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of bolus-tracking ROI positioning on coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) image quality.

Methods: In this retrospective monocentric study, all patients had undergone CCTA by step-and-shoot mode to rule out coronary artery disease within a cohort at intermediate risk. Two groups were formed, depending on ROI positioning (left atrium (LA) or ascending aorta (AA)).

Diffusion-weighted MRI for initial staging in Hodgkin`s lymphoma: comparison with FDG PET.

Purpose: To evaluate the use of diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) for initial staging of Hodgkin`s lymphoma and compare it to FDG PET.

Methods: Forty-one patients with Hodgkin`s lymphoma (14 f, 27 m, median age 39 y) were included in this retrospective study. All patients underwent FDG PET/MR for initial staging, including DWI.

Prospects of X-ray imaging spectrometers for impurity transport: Recent results from the stellarator Wendelstein 7-X (invited).

This paper reports on the design and the performance of the recently upgraded X-ray imaging spectrometer systems, X-ray imaging crystal spectrometer and high resolution X-ray imaging spectrometer, installed at the optimized stellarator Wendelstein 7-X. High resolution spectra of highly ionized, He-like Si, Ar, Ti, and Fe as well as H-like Ar have been observed. A cross comparison of ion and electron temperature profiles derived from a spectral fit and tomographic inversion of Ar and Fe spectra shows a reasonable match with both the spectrometers.

Don't Blame the System; They've Chosen the Wrong One.

While trying to represent patients in the design of integrated care, I have heard the words and used frequently. Few of those using the words seem to be aware of the history of systems thinking, or its principles. Health interventions are instead designed using logic modelling, which is aholistic and disintegrative.

Iminium Catalysis inside a Self-Assembled Supramolecular Capsule: Scope and Mechanistic Studies.

Although iminium catalysis has become an important tool in organic chemistry, its combination with supramolecular host systems has remained largely unexplored. We report the detailed investigations into the first example of iminium catalysis inside a supramolecular host. In the case of 1,4-reductions of α,β-unsaturated aldehydes, catalytic amounts of host are able to increase the enantiomeric excess of the products formed.

Exploring Catalysis inside Self-assembled Supramolecular Containers.

Our group is interested in applying supramolecular host systems as catalysts for challenging transformations. Although a variety of supramolecular containers has been described in literature, their use as reaction chambers is still underexplored. We herein describe our first steps in this exciting interdisciplinary field of research.

Overview of diagnostic performance and results for the first operation phase in Wendelstein 7-X (invited).

Wendelstein 7-X, a superconducting optimized stellarator built in Greifswald/Germany, started its first plasmas with the last closed flux surface (LCFS) defined by 5 uncooled graphite limiters in December 2015. At the end of the 10 weeks long experimental campaign (OP1.1) more than 20 independent diagnostic systems were in operation, allowing detailed studies of many interesting plasma phenomena.

Iminium Catalysis inside a Self-Assembled Supramolecular Capsule: Modulation of Enantiomeric Excess.

The noncovalent combination of a supramolecular host with iminium organocatalysis is described. Due to cation-π interactions the reactive iminium species is held inside the host and reacts in this confined environment. The products formed differ up to 92 % ee from the control experiments without added host.

[Diagnosis and treatment of diving accidents. New German guidelines for diving accidents 2014-2017].

In 2015 the German Society for Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine (GTÜM) and the Swiss Underwater and Hyperbaric Medical Society (SUHMS) published the updated guidelines on diving accidents 2014-2017. These multidisciplinary guidelines were developed within a structured consensus process by members of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI), the Sports Divers Association (VDST), the Naval Medical Institute (SchiffMedInst), the Social Accident Insurance Institution for the Building Trade (BG BAU), the Association of Hyperbaric Treatment Centers (VDD) and the Society of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (DGAUM). This consensus-based guidelines project (development grade S2k) with a representative group of developers was conducted by the Association of Scientific Medical Societies in Germany.

Multiparametric Prostate Magnetic Resonance Imaging at 3 T: Failure of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy to Provide Added Value.

Purpose: To assess the effect of proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy imaging (MRSI) on the accuracy of multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) at 3 T for prostate cancer detection.

Materials And Methods: Thirty-four patients with prostate cancer were included in this retrospective study. All patients underwent preoperative mpMRI on a 3-T scanner before radical prostatectomy.

Evaluation of racing performance after colic surgery in Thoroughbreds: 85 cases (1996-2010).

Objective: To determine racing performance after surgery for colic in Thoroughbreds.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Animals: 85 racing Thoroughbreds that survived to discharge following colic surgery and 170 race-matched reference horses.

The carbon count of 2000 years of rice cultivation.

More than 50% of the world's population feeds on rice. Soils used for rice production are mostly managed under submerged conditions (paddy soils). This management, which favors carbon sequestration, potentially decouples surface from subsurface carbon cycling.

Transarterial Chemoembolization of Child-A hepatocellular carcinoma: drug-eluting bead TACE (DEB TACE) vs. TACE with cisplatin/lipiodol (cTACE).

Background: This study is an outcome evaluation of the Drug-Eluting-Bead-Chemoembolization (DEB TACE) compared to conventional TACE (cTACE) with Cisplation and Lipiodol in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and Child-Pugh A Cirrhosis.

Material/methods: A comparison of interventional therapy with either cTACE or DEB-TACE of 22 patients each with unresectable HCC and Child-Pugh A Cirrhosis was carried out. A comparison of therapy-associated complications, tumour response rates and mean survival was performed.

Difference in incisional complications following exploratory celiotomies using antibacterial-coated suture material for subcutaneous closure: Prospective randomised study in 100 horses.

Reasons For Performing Study: Incisional complications are a major post operative challenge following ventral midline exploratory celiotomy for abdominal pain in horses. They lead to discomfort, prolonged hospitalisation, longer recovery times and increased cost; therefore, investigation of preventative procedures are warranted.

Objectives: To determine the clinical effect of antibacterial (triclosan) coated 2-0 polyglactin 910 suture material on the likelihood of incisional infections when used for closure of subcutaneous tissue following ventral midline celiotomies in horses.

Three-dimensional photogrammetric measurement of magnetic field lines in the WEGA stellarator.

The magnetic confinement of plasmas in fusion experiments can significantly degrade due to perturbations of the magnetic field. A precise analysis of the magnetic field in a stellarator-type experiment utilizes electrons as test particles following the magnetic field line. The usual fluorescent detector for this electron beam limits the provided information to two-dimensional cut views at certain toroidal positions.

Large colon resection and anastomosis in horses: 52 cases (1996-2006).

Reasons For Performing Study: Large colon resection and anastomosis (LCRA) is the most aggressive method of surgical management of a colon with questionable viability. Currently, published studies are comprised mostly of broodmares and discuss short-term survival.

Objectives: To determine the prognosis for survival after LCRA in a diverse population of horses, report the incidence of post operative complications, and determine if associations between analysed variables and survival rate exist.

Flagellar and global gene regulation in Helicobacter pylori modulated by changes in DNA supercoiling.

In Helicobacter pylori, a host-adapted bacterium with a small genome and few dedicated transcriptional regulators, promoter structure, and gene organization suggested a role for DNA topology in the transcriptional regulation of flagellar genes. H. pylori DNA supercoiling, monitored by a reporter plasmid, was relaxed by novobiocin, an inhibitor of DNA gyrase.

Physeal growth retardation leads to correction of intracarpal angular deviations as well as physeal valgus deformity.

Retrospective analysis of the radiographs of horses with carpal valgus, presented to the Iowa State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital from 1987-1996, were used to compare 2 methods of geometric analysis for finding the total angle of deviation. The pivot point angle method and the individual joint angle method were found to be comparable for determining the total angle of deviation. The individual joint angle method was used to analyse individual carpal joint angles and physis angle in joints with carpal valgus, as well as the changes that occurred in response to surgical correction.