Chronic sacroiliac joint dysfunction and CT-guided percutaneous fixation: a 6-year experience.

Purpose: Reporting the clinical outcomes, patient satisfaction, and complications following an imaging-guided percutaneous screw fixation in the treatment of sacroiliac joint dysfunction and evaluating the safety and effectiveness of this method.

Methods: We performed a retrospective study on a prospectively gathered cohort of patients with physiotherapy-resistant pain due to sacroiliac joint incompetence that underwent percutaneous screw fixation, between 2016 and 2022 in our center. A minimum of two screws were used in all patients to obtain fixation of the sacroiliac joint, using percutaneous screw insertion under CT guidance, coupled with a C-arm fluoroscopy unit.

Mechanical Thrombectomy in Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis: Reports of a Retrospective Single-Center Study.

Current standard care for acute cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) includes either intravenous heparin or subcutaneous low-molecular-weight heparin, but patients with refractory CVST, despite adequate anticoagulation therapy, may benefit from mechanical thrombectomy (MT). A retrospective study of patients with CVST, who underwent MT between 2011 and 2019, was performed looking at procedure success rate and clinical outcomes. Two raters evaluated the cerebral venous system of every patient before and after the intervention using the following scoring system: (0) No obvious thrombosis; (1) thrombosis without impaired blood flow; (2) thrombosis with impaired blood flow; (3) and thrombosis with complete vascular occlusion.

Sleep duration and anthropometric indices in an Iranian population: the Fasa PERSIAN cohort study.

Recent decades have seen a dramatic rise in the prevalence of obesity. While genetic factors can influence obesity, environmental factors and lifestyle may play important roles as well. Sleep can be regarded as one of these factors.

Radiological features of osteoid osteoma: pictorial review.

Osteoid osteoma is a benign bone tumor of undetermined etiology, composed of a central zone named nidus which is an atypical bone completely enclosed within a wellvascularized stroma and a peripheral sclerotic reaction zone. There are three types of radiographic features: cortical, medullary and subperiosteal. Forty-four patients with osteoid osteoma were studied retrospectively.