An automated registration algorithm for measuring MRI subcortical brain structures.

An automated registration algorithm was used to elastically match an anatomical magnetic resonance (MR) atlas onto individual brain MR images. Our goal was to evaluate the accuracy of this procedure for measuring the volume of MRI brain structures. We applied two successive algorithms to a series of 28 MR brain images, from 14 schizophrenia patients and 14 normal controls.

[Sudden death in acute myocardial infarct in hospitalized patients: a clinical and anatomicopathological study over a 10.5-year period].

The paper reports on the study of 1457 patients with acute myocardial infarct (Ami) admitted in the word of the cardiac intensive care of the clinic for 10.5 years. The general mortality was of 21.

[The etiological spectrum of mitral insufficiency: a 10-year retrospective study].

The incidence, etiology and data on the severity and therapeutic implications of the mitral insufficiency were investigated in the patients admitted in the clinic during 10 years. The diagnosis was based mainly on clinical and echocardiography mode M data. 595 patients suffering from mitral insufficiency (below 2% of the total of the patients admitted) were recorded.

[The experience of paramedical personnel in the cardiopulmonary resuscitation of acute cardiac patients].

The cardiac stop as well as the severe despondency of the respiratory function in the recoverable patients is a major medical urgency which causes the immediate death of the patient if efficient measures of cardiorespiratory resuscitation are not correctly and rapidly taken. The authors describe in detail the measures to be taken in such situations, presenting the experience of the medical and nursing staff in the coronary intensive care unit of the Medical Clinic III, in the Clinical Hospital of Bucharest. It is underlined the fact that due to the nature of their tasks, the nursing staff have an essential contribution within the "team work" of the coronary intensive care units.