Publications by authors named "Cinthia Cruz-Romero"
Article Synopsis
- This study looked at how to make liver biopsies using ultrasound better and easier.
- They checked data from 501 patients and found that 86% of the biopsies were successful.
- Smaller, deeper liver lesions and certain locations made it harder to perform the biopsy, especially when there were fewer lesions to target.
Background And Aims: EUS is increasingly used to evaluate patients with liver disease, but its role in assessing hepatic steatosis has not been reported. The goal of our study was to assess the accuracy of EUS for diagnosing hepatic steatosis.
Methods: We identified all patients who underwent EUS-guided liver biopsy sampling at our institution.
Background: Patient genetic polymorphism is associated with Crohn's clinical behavior; however, its association with magnetic resonance enterography (MRE) imaging appearance is not known.
Purpose: To analyze a set of known Crohn's disease (CD)-related single nucleotide polymorphisms for associations with MRE imaging phenotype and frequency of imaging.
Study Type: Retrospective.
The aim of this study is to determine the magnitude of change in spleen volume on CT in subjects sustaining blunt abdominal trauma without hemorrhage relative to patients without disease and how the spleen volumes are distributed. Sixty-seven subjects with blunt abdominal trauma and 101 control subjects were included in this retrospective single-center, IRB-approved, and HIPAA-compliant study. Patients with an injured spleen were excluded.
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