Cavernous Sinus Thrombosis Linked to COVID-19 Infection: a Case Report.

The severity of SARS-CoV-2 virus infection is mainly related to its respiratory complications. However, it can also lead to a large variety of thromboembolic events. Symptoms may include headache, fever, and neurological disorders.

Automated contour detection in spine radiographs and computed tomography reconstructions for forensic comparative identification.

This study was conducted to test an automated method to identify unknown individuals. It relies on a previous radiographic file and uses an edge-based comparison of lumbar CT/PMCT reconstructions and radiographs. The living group was composed of 15 clinical lumbar spine CT scans and 15 paired radiographs belonging to the same patients.

Association of lumbosacral transitional vertebra and sacroiliitis in patients with inflammatory back pain suggesting axial spondyloarthritis.

Objective: Lumbosacral transitional vertebras (LSTVs) are common in the general population, but their potential impact on the sacroiliac joints is unclear. We aimed to determine the prevalence of LSTVs and to assess their associations with sacroiliitis by standard radiography and MRI in a population with suspected axial spondyloarthritis.

Methods: The data were from the DESIR cohort of 688 patients aged 18-50 years with inflammatory low back pain for ⩾3 months but <3 years suggesting axial spondyloarthritis.

Spinal-pelvic orientation: potential effect on the diagnosis of spondyloarthritis.

Objective: To assess associations of spinal-pelvic orientation with clinical and imaging-study findings suggesting axial SpA (axSpA) in patients with recent-onset inflammatory back pain.

Methods: Spinal-pelvic orientation was assessed in DESIR cohort patients with recent-onset inflammatory back pain and suspected axSpA, by using lateral lumbar-spine radiographs to categorize sacral horizontal angle (<40° vs ⩾40°), lumbosacral angle (<15° vs ⩾15°) and lumbar lordosis (LL, <50° vs ⩾50°). Associations between these angle groups and variables collected at baseline and 2 years later were assessed using the χ2 test (or Fisher's exact) and the Mann-Whitney test.

Post-mortem X-ray computed tomography (PMCT) identification using ante-mortem CT-scan of the sphenoid sinus.

Purpose: To evaluate forensic identification of individuals through visual comparison of sphenoid sinus anatomical configuration using ante- and post-mortem CT-scans.

Method And Materials: Ante- and post-mortem head CT-scan of 33 individuals were retrospectively collected. Ten head CT-scans were randomly selected from various neurological contexts and added to the ante-mortem group.

Risk factors for recurrent venous thromboembolism after unprovoked pulmonary embolism: the PADIS-PE randomised trial.

We aimed to identify risk factors for recurrent venous thromboembolism (VTE) after unprovoked pulmonary embolism.Analyses were based on the double-blind randomised PADIS-PE trial, which included 371 patients with a first unprovoked pulmonary embolism initially treated during 6 months who were randomised to receive an additional 18 months of warfarin or placebo and followed up for 2 years after study treatment discontinuation. All patients had ventilation/perfusion lung scan at inclusion ( at 6 months of anticoagulation).