Predictors of Surgical Failure in Pediatric Lesional Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Surgery.

Background: Epilepsy surgery can potentially cure pharmacoresistant temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) in children. However, surgical failures, where patients continue to experience seizures, still exist. We evaluated outcomes in pediatric patients after resective temporal lobe surgery to identify risk factors for failure.

Implementation of a 7T Epilepsy Task Force consensus imaging protocol for routine presurgical epilepsy work-up: effect on diagnostic yield and lesion delineation.

Objective: Recently, the 7 Tesla (7 T) Epilepsy Task Force published recommendations for 7 T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with pharmaco-resistant focal epilepsy in pre-surgical evaluation. The objective of this study was to implement and evaluate this consensus protocol with respect to both its practicability and its diagnostic value/potential lesion delineation surplus effect over 3 T MRI in the pre-surgical work-up of patients with pharmaco-resistant focal onset epilepsy.

Methods: The 7 T MRI protocol consisted of T1-weighted, T2-weighted, high-resolution-coronal T2-weighted, fluid-suppressed, fluid-and-white-matter-suppressed, and susceptibility-weighted imaging, with an overall duration of 50 min.

Are Women Really Less Competitive Than Men? Career Duration in Nordic and Alpine Skiing.

Do women shy away from competition while men compete too much? The available, mostly experimental evidence generally supports these assumptions. However, in contrast to laboratory settings, labor markets do not have random assignment of workers. Instead, individuals-professional athletes and corporate executives-self-select into specific occupations.

[Etiology, therapy and prophylaxis of bovine parturient paresis (hypocalcaemia)].

Due to the sudden increase of calcium demand at the onset of lactation many high yielding dairy cows experience a certain level of hypocalcaemia following parturition. The incidence of hypocalcaemia (parturient paresis) increases with age but also depends on many other factors such as the acid-base status and the availability of calcium as well as other minerals and trace elements. Hypocalcaemia can easily be treated by supplementation of calcium parenterally or orally, nonetheless, prophylaxis of the condition should be the main focus in modern dairy farming, in order to avoid its negative effects.

[Evaluation of sonographic parameters as prognostic risk factors in cats with pancreatitis - A retrospective study in 42 cats].

Objective: Pancreatitis in cats can have different clinical courses. A range from asymptomatic or mild, unspecific clinical signs to severe disease with multi-organ dysfunction or even death has been described. It is sometimes difficult to evaluate the prognosis of the cat based on clinical findings, laboratory diagnostics and diagnostic imaging.

Correlation of clinical, diagnostic and histopathological parameters in dogs with chronic lymphocytic-plasmacytic enteropathy.

Objective: The objective of this study was to correlate clinical signs and diagnostic parameters with duodenal inflammatory and architectural changes in dogs with lymphocytic-plasmacytic enteropathy.

Material And Methods: In a retrospective study dogs presented between 2003 and 2014 with chronic gastrointestinal signs (duration > 3 weeks) and histologic evidence of intestinal lymphocytic-plasmacytic inflammation were evaluated. Clinical signs, serum albumin, cobalamin and folic acid concentrations were recorded and a sonographic, endoscopic, histologic and cytological inflammatory score was determined.

Correlation between the FCEAI and diagnostic parameters in chronic enteropathies in 147 cats (2006-2012).

Objective: The Feline Chronic Enteropathy Activity Index (FCEAI) has been established as a quantitative index for disease activity in chronic enteropathies in cats. A definite diagnosis is aimed at histology with initial exclusion of extraintestinal causes by laboratory examinations, diagnostic imaging and endoscopy. The study aimed to examine diagnostic parameters and FCEAI in chronic gastroenteropathies.

Thymolipoma. A report of nine cases, with emphasis on its association with myasthenia gravis.

Purpose: Thymolipomas are rare tumors of the anterior mediastinum accounting for up to 9% of all thymic tumors. These tumors are associated with autoimmune diseases in up to 50% of the patients, including myasthenia gravis, aplastic anemia, hypogammaglobulinemia, lichen planus, and Graves' disease. These tumors with a fatty appearance also can arise in older patients with autoimmune disease.

A typical thymic carcinoid tumour within a thymolipoma: report of a case and review of combined tumours of the thymus.

Thymolipomas are rare tumours located in the anterior mediastinum. Sometimes these tumours may be combined with thymomas or lymphomas. We present a unique case of a thymic carcinoid arising within a thymolipoma.

Association between atherosclerosis and urothelial tumors of the renal pelvis.

Objectives: An association between the prevalence of general and local atherosclerosis and various types of cancer has previously been reported. The present study therefore aimed to morphometrically compare atherosclerotic changes in kidneys with urothelial carcinomas of the renal pelvis and tumor-negative renal tissue.

Materials And Methods: The intima-to-media ratio (IMR), which is the most sensitive marker for the degree of atherosclerosis, was evaluated in arteries (n = 492) of non-invasive papillary urothelial carcinoma (n = 128), invasive urothelial carcinoma (n = 168) and tumor-negative renal specimens (n = 196).