Background: Endovascular aneurysm sealing (EVAS) is an innovative alternative to conventional endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR). EVAS relies on sac anchoring without proximal fixation to achieve sealing and should have allowed for the treatment of a broader range of anatomic features compared with standard EVAR. Despite the encouraging early reports, the mid- and long-term follow-up data have shown increased rates of failure.
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April 2018
The presence of an acute coronary syndrome in patients with anaphylaxis is a challenging diagnostic conundrum for the cardiologist. Both Kounis syndrome and takotsubo syndrome must be taken into account. We present here the case of a 46-year-old woman suffering from ventricular fibrillation after adrenaline infusion for an anaphylactic reaction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: Our study aimed to investigate the role of qualitative and quantitative whole body MRI with DWI for assessment of bone marrow involvement (BMI) in newly diagnosed lymphoma using FDG PET-CT and bone marrow biopsy (BMB) as reference standard.
Materials And Methods: We retrospectively evaluated 56 patients with newly diagnosed lymphoma (21 Hodgkin's lymphoma and 35 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma) who underwent random unilateral BMB, FDG PET-CT and Wb-MRI-DWI for initial staging. In a patient-based analysis, results of Wb-MRI-DWI were compared with FDG PET-CT and BMB.
Aim: To compare the accuracy of whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (Wb-MRI) with diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) to that of contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CE-CT) and 2-[(18)F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose ((18)F-FDG) positron-emission tomography co-registered with low dose-CT (PET-CT) in defining lymphoma disease stage.
Materials And Methods: From February 2010 to May 2014, 41 lymphoma patients underwent Wb-MRI-DWI, CE-CT, and (18)F-FDG PET-CT. Histological subtypes included aggressive B-cell (n=11), follicular (n=13), mantle cell (n=3), and Hodgkin's (n=14) lymphoma.