Correlation between Carotid Artery Mean Intima-Media Thickness and brain Natriuretic Peptide in Patients with Psoriasis.

Background: Numerous studies have documented an association between psoriasis and subclinical atherosclerosis.

Objective: We aimed to investigate the effects of psoriasis on the levels of N-terminal prohormone B type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) and clarify whether this factor correlates with the evaluations of subclinical atherosclerosis, measured with mean intima-media thickness (MIMT) of the carotid artery.

Methods: Sixty-one psoriatic patients and sixty-one healthy, age and sex-matched volunteers were enrolled.

ADC-derived spatial features can accurately classify adnexal lesions.

Background: The role of quantitative apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps in differentiating adnexal masses is unresolved.

Purpose/hypothesis: To propose an objective diagnostic method devised based on spatial features for predicting benignity/malignancy of adnexal masses in ADC maps.

Study Type: Prospective.

A one-step biomarker quantification methodology for DCE-MRI of adnexal masses: Capturing kinetic pattern from early to late enhancement.

Purpose: To develop a one-step quantification approach that accounts for joint preprocessing and quantification of whole-range kinetics (early and late-phase washout) of dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI of indeterminate adnexal masses.

Methods: Preoperative DCE-MRI of 43 (24 benign, 19 malignant) sonographically indeterminate adnexal masses were analyzed prospectively. A five-parameter sigmoid function was implemented to model the enhancement curves calculated within regions of interest.