Spleen Transient Elastography and Damping Index Identify a Subgroup of Patients Without an Acute or Chronic Response to Beta-Blockers.

Background And Aims: Monitoring of acute or chronic response to beta-blockers in patients with liver cirrhosis is based on the measurement of the HVPG. Our aim was to evaluate the response to beta-blockers with non-invasive techniques.

Patients And Methods: This is a prospective observational study.

Wandering spleen torsion-use of contrast-enhanced ultrasound.

We report a case of torsion of a wandering spleen in an 18-year-old male patient who presented with acute abdominal pain and left lower quadrant mass. The patient was initially misdiagnosed at another institution. The patient came to our hospital for further investigation.

Acute phase Peyronie's disease management with traction device: a nonrandomized prospective controlled trial with ultrasound correlation.

Introduction: Outcome data of penile traction therapy (PTT) for the acute phase (AP) of Peyronie's disease (PD) have not been specifically studied.

Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a penile extender device for the treatment of patients with AP of PD.

Methods: A total of 55 patients underwent PTT for 6 months and were compared with 41 patients with AP of PD who did not receive active treatment ("no intervention group" [NIG]).

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound of liver lesions related to arterial thrombosis in adult liver transplantation.

Purpose: To describe the contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) features of liver and biliary lesions related to hepatic artery thrombosis in adult patients with orthotopic liver transplantation.

Methods: Gray-scale ultrasound (US), Doppler US, and CEUS using a hexafluoride-based US contrast media were performed on a series of eight patients with liver transplantation and hepatic artery thrombosis.

Results: Six of the cases presented infarctions, seen as parenchymal geographic areas of lack of enhancement.

Acoustic radiation force impulse elastography and contrast-enhanced sonography of sinusoidal obstructive syndrome (Veno-occlusive Disease): preliminary results.

We report quantitative liver acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) elastographic findings in 2 cases of sinusoidal obstructive syndrome and liver contrast-enhanced sonographic features in one of these cases. To our knowledge, findings in this condition from these techniques have not been reported previously. Acoustic radiation force impulse elastography showed median high shear wave velocities (case 1, 2.

Acute complicated pyelonephritis: contrast-enhanced ultrasound.

Imaging is required if complication is suspected in acute pyelonephritis to assess the nature and extent of the lesions, and to detect underlying causes. The current imaging modality of choice in clinical practice is computed tomography. Because of associated radiation and potential nephrotoxicity, CEUS is an alternative that has been proven to be equally accurate in the detection of acute pyelonephritis renal lesions.