The Impact of Meeting Patients with Neurological Disorders on Medical Student Empathy.

Purpose: Empathy tends to decline during medical education, typically beginning in the third year of medical school and often continuing throughout residency and the physician's medical career. The purpose of this study was to determine if first year medical student empathy is affected by small group interactions with patients with neurological disorders, and to investigate if changes in empathy persisted over time.

Materials And Methods: Eighty first year medical students participating in a Neuroscience Module interacted with a variety of neurological patients in a small group informational session.

Deep learning for semi-automated unidirectional measurement of lung tumor size in CT.

Background: Performing Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumor (RECISTS) measurement is a non-trivial task requiring much expertise and time. A deep learning-based algorithm has the potential to assist with rapid and consistent lesion measurement.

Purpose: The aim of this study is to develop and evaluate deep learning (DL) algorithm for semi-automated unidirectional CT measurement of lung lesions.

Hepatic lobe torsion: A rare disease necessitating surgical management.

Background: Accessory liver lobes and other congenital liver abnormalities are rare and most often asymptomatic. However, these abnormalities can result in liver torsion, requiring surgical resection.

Case Report: We report a case of a 72-year-old woman with hepatic lobe torsion.

Functional Outcome Measures of Recombinant Tissue Plasminogen Activator-Treated Stroke Patients in the Telestroke Technology.

The efficiency of telestroke programs in improving the rates of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA) in stroke patients has been reported. Previous studies have reported favorable treatment outcomes with the use of telestroke programs to improve the use of rtPA, but functional outcomes are not fully understood. This study investigated the effect of telestroke technology in the administration of rtPA and related functional outcomes associated with baseline clinical variables.

Clinical Risk Factors in Thrombolysis therapy: Telestroke Versus Nontelestroke.

Background: The objective of this study is to determine clinical risk factors associated with exclusion from thrombolysis in telestroke and nontelestroke settings. These risk factors may offer clues for optimization of thrombolysis therapy in acute ischemic stroke population.

Materials And Methods: Retrospective data of patients with acute ischemic stroke via telestroke and nontelestroke assessment were analyzed.

In a stroke cohort with incident hypertension; are more women than men likely to be excluded from recombinant tissue-type Plasminogen Activator (rtPA)?

Background: The treatment outcomes in the use of rt-PA have been reported. Some studies reported worse outcome in women than men, while others presented opposing data. Using data from a hospital-based stroke registry, we investigated evidence of gender difference and determined exclusion criteria in a stroke population with incidence of hypertension.

Subconcussive impacts and imaging findings over a season of contact sports.

The effect of repeated subconcussive head impacts in youth and high school sports on the developing brain is poorly understood. Emerging neuroimaging data correlated with biomechanical exposure metrics are beginning to demonstrate relationships across a variety of modalities. The long-term consequences of these changes are unknown.