Association between consensus-based nutrition pathway and growth faltering in infants with gastroschisis: A retrospective cohort study.

Background: The University of California Fetal Consortium published that 55% of infants with gastroschisis develop growth faltering by hospital discharge. To address this problem, we developed a nutrition pathway emphasizing (1) early provision of parenteral macronutrients, (2) use of human milk, and (3) growth faltering treatment. This study's goals were to assess adherence to and efficacy of this pathway in infants with gastroschisis across six California hospitals.

Non-nutritional use of human milk as a therapeutic agent in neonates: Brain, gut, and immunologic targets.

Human milk (HM) exposure improves short- and long-term outcomes for infants due to a complex milieu of bioactive, stem cell, anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, and nutritive components. Given this remarkable biologic fluid, non-nutritional utilization of HM as a targeted therapeutic is being explored in pre-clinical and clinical studies. This article describes recent research pertinent to non-nutritional uses of HM for neurologic, gastrointestinal, and infectious pathologies in neonates, as well as future directions.

Significance of incidental thyroid 18 F-fluorocholine uptake in patients with hyperparathyroidism imaged for localizing hyperfunctioning parathyroid glands.

Objective: 18 F-fluorocholine PET/CT is considered the imaging gold standard for detection of hyperfunctioning parathyroid glands . However, increased uptake might also occur in the thyroid gland. The aim of our study was to assess the incidence and significance of 18 F-fluorocholine uptake in the thyroid gland in patients with hyperparathyroidism.

Quantitative bone single photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography in symptomatic and asymptomatic foot and ankle osteoarthritis.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate and quantify the prevalence of increased uptake in SPECT/CT in symptomatic and asymptomatic foot and ankle joints in patients with osteoarthritis.

Methods: In 63 patients with osteoarthritis (OA), the painful symptomatic foot (SF) and asymptomatic contralateral foot (AF) were imaged with bone SPECT/CT. Presence, localization, and maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) of the active joints were assessed for SF and AF.

Comparison of the dosimetry of scandium-43 and scandium-44 patient organ doses in relation to commonly used gallium-68 for imaging neuroendocrine tumours.

Background: Several research groups have explored the potential of scandium radionuclides for theragnostic applications due to their longer half-lives and equal or similar coordination chemistry between their diagnostic and therapeutic counterparts, as well as lutetium-177 and terbium-161, respectively. Unlike the gallium-68/lutetium-177 pair, which may show different in-vivo uptake patterns, the use of scandium radioisotopes promises consistent behaviour between diagnostic and therapeutic radiopeptides. An advantage of scandium's longer half-life over gallium-68 is the ability to study radiopeptide uptake over extended periods and its suitability for centralized production and distribution.