Background & Aims: To identify predictors of enteral autonomy and survival in pediatric intestinal failure patients followed up at three pediatric intestinal rehabilitation centers from a middle-income country.
Methods: This retrospective multicenter cohort study evaluated patients with intestinal failure from three high-volume intestinal rehabilitation centers on long-term parenteral nutrition between 2014 and 2023. The primary outcome was status at the end of the follow-up: parenteral nutrition dependence, enteral autonomy, transplantation, or death.
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The carotid plaques characterization is essential to decide about the possibility of surgical intervention (endarterectomy/stenting) on the patient. Soft and unstable plaques represent a major risk for the patient, as they are correlated with an augmented probability of brain infarction and emboli generation. Hence, the minimally-invasive characterization especially of this type of carotid plaques is crucial in clinical practice.
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Isochromosome 17q (i[17q]) is the most frequent chromosomal abnormality in medulloblastoma, occurring in 30-60% of cases by karyotype analysis. In the present study i[17q] was demonstrated in routinely processed tissue sections of 20 medulloblastomas by in situ hybridization (ISH), using a chromosome 17 centromeric alpha satellite DNA probe. All medulloblastomas showed the i[17q] specific signal, i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe reliability of radiographical information may be improved by a) standardised radiography (exposure-development); b) transformation of the original image into a densitometric image and equalization with a reference wedge made of Ergal. The linear absorption coefficient of Ergal in terms of photon X energy is almost identical to the average coefficient of the bone mineral matrix; c) processing the densitometric image for additional information. An automatic image analyser controlled by a computer is used.
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