Bronchoalveolar lavage cytokine-based risk stratification of clinically-stable lung transplant recipients with undefined rejection: Further insights from a follow-up investigation.

Background: Surveillance bronchoscopies with bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and transbronchial biopsies (TBB) are primarily used to detect acute cellular rejection (ACR) or infection in lung transplant (LTx) recipients. We previously identified a BAL protein signature associated with chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) or death/retransplant in patients with stable minimal (grade A1) ACR. This present study aimed to determine whether similar BAL biomarkers predict outcomes in stable patients when ACR grade is undetermined.

The burden of sudden cardiac arrest in the setting of acute coronary syndrome.

Background: The incidence of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) during acute coronary syndrome is somewhat unclear, since often subjects dying before the first healthcare contact are not included in the estimates. We aimed to investigate the complete incidence of SCA during ACS.

Methods: The study population consists of two cohorts.

Impact of the measurement conditions and compression paddle on mammography dosimeter response.

The effect of mammography measurement conditions was investigated to evaluate their impact on measurement uncertainties in clinical practice. The most prominent physical X-ray beam quantities i.e.

Cone beam CT doses in radiotherapy patient positioning in Finland-prostate treatments.

Imaging parameters, frequencies and resulting patient organ doses in treatments of prostate cancer were assessed in Finnish radiotherapy centres. Based on a questionnaire to the clinics, Monte Carlo method was used to estimate organ doses in International Commission on Radiological Protection standard phantom for prostate, bladder, rectum and femoral head. The results show that doses from cone beam computed tomography imaging have reduced compared to earlier studies and are between 3.