Publications by authors named "Loukbi Saker"
Introduction: The selection of patients for lung transplantation is difficult. An aspect of the patient's general condition and frailty can be assessed by measuring the surface area of certain muscles on CT. Indeed, sarcopenia, assessed by measuring the area of psoas muscles on scannographic sections has already been shown to be associated with poor outcomes in lung transplant and other major surgeries and could thus be helpful to evaluate candidates to lung transplant.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Migration of the staple line is the definition of sliding hiatus hernia in sleeve gastrectomy patients. The main aim was to determine the frequency and measurement of intrathoracic staple line migration and its correlation with GERD symptoms and pH monitoring.
Materials And Methods: This was a prospective clinical trial including all patients who underwent sleeve gastrectomy more than 1 year previously.
Purpose: Characterization of malignant cardiac masses is usually performed with cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) and staging with whole-body contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CECT). In this study, our objective was to evaluate the role of Fluor-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (F-FDG-PET) with CMR for both characterization and staging of cardiac masses.
Methods: Patients with cardiac masses who underwent CMR, CECT, and F-FDG-PET were retrospectively identified.
Objectives: To assess interobserver agreement and clinical significance of chest CT reporting in patients suspected of COVID-19.
Methods: From 16 to 24 March 2020, 241 consecutive patients addressed to hospital for COVID-19 suspicion had both chest CT and SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR. Eight observers (2 thoracic and 2 general senior radiologists, 2 junior radiologists, and 2 emergency physicians) retrospectively categorized each CT into one out of 4 categories (evocative, compatible for COVID-19 pneumonia, not evocative, and normal).