Interdiscip Cardiovasc Thorac Surg
March 2023
Acute type A aortic dissection complicated by carotid artery is associated with a high risk of perioperative stroke. We reported a case of application of hybrid aortic arch debranching procedure in acute type A aortic dissection complicated by right carotid artery occlusion, which resulted in no neurological complications after operation and patent carotid artery after discharging.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAcute aortic dissection (AAD) is an emergent vascular disease. Currently, its diagnosis depends on clinical and radiological investigations but lacking of serum biomarkers. In this study, we aimed to identify potential serum biomarkers for AAD using label-free proteomics approach.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To investigate potential findings associated with cytokeratin 19 (CK19)-positive HCC, with special emphasis on MR texture analysis.
Materials And Methods: Forty-eight patients with CK19-negative HCC and 38 patients with CK19-positive were retrospectively evaluated by texture analysis based on conventional MRI. Clinicalpathological characteristics, conventional MR imaging findings, and the MR texture analysis contained of 2415 texture features in the seven conventional sequences were compared.
Objectives: To evaluate the diagnostic value of liver extracellular volume (ECV) measurement by equilibrium MR in staging liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients, and to compare its performance with serum fibrosis indices.
Materials And Methods: 91 CHB patients were included and underwent gadopentetate dimeglumine-enhanced MRI with T1 mapping sequence before and 15-min after contrast. ECV, aspartate aminotransferase-to-platelet ratio index (APRI) and fibrosis index based on the four factors (FIB-4) were calculated and compared between fibrosis subgroups, and the correlations between the three indices and fibrosis stage or inflammatory activity were measured by Spearman correlation analysis and stepwise multiple regression analysis.
Objective: To investigate the diagnostic value of diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) histogram analysis in hepatic fibrosis staging.
Materials And Methods: Thirty-six rats were divided into carbon tetrachloride-induced fibrosis groups (6 rats per group for 2, 4, 6, and 8 weeks) and a control group (n = 12). MRI was performed using a 3T scanner.
Background: To investigate the diagnostic value of diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in assessing liver regeneration after associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy (ALPPS) compared with portal vein ligation (PVL).
Methods: Thirty rats were divided into the ALPPS, PVL, and control groups. DKI and DWI were performed before and 7 days after surgery.
Purpose: To investigate the value of diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) histogram analysis in assessing liver regeneration and the microstructure basis after associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy (ALPPS), in comparison with portal vein ligation (PVL).
Materials And Methods: Thirty rats were divided into the ALPPS, PVL, and control groups. Histograms of DKI using a 3T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner were performed for corrected apparent diffusion (D), kurtosis (K), and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC).
Background: Few studies have investigated the value of Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced T1 mapping in exact fibrosis staging, especially its correlation with hepatic molecular transporters.
Aims: To investigate the diagnostic value of Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced T1 mapping in staging liver fibrosis and its relationship with hepatic molecular transporters.
Methods: Thirty rats were divided into the carbon tetrachloride-induced fibrosis groups and a control group.
Purpose: To investigate and compare the diagnostic value of diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) with diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in assessing and quantifying hepatic fibrosis.
Methods: Thirty rats were divided into the control group (n = 6) and the fibrosis experimental groups (n = 6 per group) with CCl administration for 2, 4, 6, and 8 weeks. Liver fibrosis stage (S) and necroinflammatory activity grade (G) were histopathologically determined.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate computed tomography (CT) virtual non-contrast (VNC) spectral imaging for gastric carcinoma.
Materials And Methods: Fifty-two patients with histologically proven gastric carcinomas underwent gemstone spectral imaging (GSI) including non-contrast and contrast-enhanced hepatic arterial, portal venous, and equilibrium phase acquisitions prior to surgery. VNC arterial phase (VNCa), VNC venous phase (VNCv), and VNC equilibrium phase (VNCe) images were obtained by subtracting iodine from iodine/water images.
Objective: The objective was to qualitatively and quantitatively evaluate hepatic metastases using computed tomography (CT) virtual noncontrast (VNC) spectral imaging in a retrospective analysis.
Methods: Forty hepatic metastases patients underwent CT scans including the conventional true noncontrast (TNC) and the tri-phasic contrast-enhanced dual energy spectral scans in the hepatic arterial, portal venous, and equilibrium phases. The tri-phasic spectral CT images were used to obtain three groups of VNC images including in the arterial (VNCa), venous (VNCv), and equilibrium (VNCe) phase by the material decomposition process using water and iodine as a base material pair.
Purpose: To evaluate the feasibility of enhanced T2 star-weighted angiography (ESWAN) in differentiating endometrial from non-endometrial cysts.
Methods: Forty-nine patients with 60 histopathologically proven ovarian cystic lesions underwent pelvic MRI including T1-weighted imaging (T1WI), T2-weighted imaging (T2WI), liver acquisition with volume acceleration, and ESWAN. Ovarian cystic lesions were divided into endometrial cysts (group 1; n = 28), pyosalpinx and hydrosalpinx (group 2; n = 13), and ovarian cystic and cystic-solid tumors (group 3; n = 19).
Aim: To design and synthesize new phenyloxyisobutyric acid analogues as antidiabetic compounds.
Methods: Eight new target compounds were synthesized by combination of lipophilic moieties and acidic moiety with nucleophilic replacement or Mitsunobu condensation. The eight compounds were confirmed by 1H NMR, 13C NMR, IR and MS.