Acute and long-term immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection in unvaccinated children and young adults with inborn errors of immunity.

Purpose: To describe SARS-CoV-2 infection outcome in unvaccinated children and young adults with inborn errors of immunity (IEI) and to compare their specific acute and long-term immune responses with a sex-, age-, and severity-matched healthy population (HC).

Methods: Unvaccinated IEI patients up to 22 years old infected with SARS-CoV-2 were recruited along with a cohort of HC. SARS-CoV-2 serology and ELISpot were performed in the acute phase of infection (up to 6 weeks) and at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months.

[Multislice CT in a diagnostic imaging department: radiation doses delivered in 1 year.].

Objective: To determine the usage of CT in our diagnostic imaging department and the dose of radiation CT delivered to patients.

Material And Methods: We carried out two studies, a retrospective study on the administrative data from one year and a prospective study over one month, to determine the amount of activity of the two multislice CT scanners in our department. We recorded the total number of examinations, the different types of examination performed, and the age distributions of the patients examined.

Image quality in conventional lumbar spine radiography: evaluation using the post-processing tool Diamond View.

Conventional radiography contributes for the majority of examinations in radiology departments. Based on the European Commission Quality Criteria we evaluated the effects on image quality when applying the new post-processing tool Diamond View (Siemens AG Medical Solutions, Germany) to conventional lumbar spine radiographs. 100 digital image pairs in two directions in two planes of lumbar spine radiographs were prospectively evaluated by two radiologists.