Publications by authors named "Keerthi Arani"
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- The study aimed to find if lower contrast enhancement on postoperative MRI is linked to a higher chance of complications in patients undergoing nasoseptal flap (NSF) reconstruction after surgery.
- It involved a review of patients who had an endoscopic endonasal approach with NSF reconstruction, assessing their MRIs for enhancement scores that indicate how well the flap is healing.
- Results showed that patients with lower enhancement scores had significantly higher odds of complications, suggesting that MRI enhancement levels could help surgeons predict patient outcomes more effectively.
Background: We detected a novel imaging sign, which consists of a specific imaging pattern of diffuse susceptibility effect, delineating the cortical-subcortical junction on high-resolution susceptibility-weighted images (SWIs). We describe magnetic resonance imaging findings in 10 patients with "susceptibility etching" and possible association with their abnormal coagulation profile.
Materials/methods: A retrospective case series study with a search for cases that demonstrated susceptibility effect at the cortical-subcortical junction on SWI sequences was performed.
Image-guided percutaneous drainage is an excellent minimally invasive method for dealing with infectious complications in the pediatric population. A thorough understanding of drainage procedures in children can often lead to improved patient outcomes. Indications for percutaneous drainage will be reviewed, including abscesses related to appendicitis, post-surgical abscess formation, and abscesses related to Crohn's disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUse of spoken and written Japanese did not protect Japanese-American men from cognitive decline in late life.
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci
November 2010
Objectives: Spoken bilingualism may be associated with cognitive reserve. Mastering a complicated written language may be associated with additional reserve. We sought to determine if midlife use of spoken and written Japanese was associated with lower rates of late life cognitive decline.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The cognitive reserve hypothesis would predict that use of written Japanese should confer protection against dementia because of the complexity of its ideograms compared with written English. We sought to test this hypothesis in analyses from a longitudinal study of Japanese-American men.
Methods: Participants were second-generation Japanese-American men (Nisei) on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, who were seen in 1965 and in subsequent examinations to detect dementia beginning in 1991-1993.