Publications by authors named "M C Quirk"
spp. are facultative pathogens that contribute to the pathogenesis of multiple bovine diseases, including the bovine respiratory disease complex, and have been shown to form biofilms. Biofilm formation is associated with increased antibiotic resistance in many organisms, but accurate determination of antimicrobial susceptibility in biofilms is challenging.
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- The study aimed to assess how effective track cautery is during lung microwave ablation (MWA) in minimizing adverse events after the procedure.
- A total of 365 MWA sessions were analyzed, comparing patients who underwent track cautery during antenna removal to those who did not, evaluating post-procedural complications like pneumothorax and pleural effusion.
- Results indicated that track cautery significantly reduced rates of enlarging pneumothorax, delayed pneumothorax, and pleural effusion, while factors like emphysema and tumor size were linked to higher adverse event rates.
Purpose This study aimed to determine the costs associated with prostatic artery embolization (PAE) performed in hospital and outpatient-based lab (OBL) settings. Methods Procedures were performed in similarly equipped procedure suites located within a tertiary hospital or OBL. Time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) was utilized to calculate procedural costs incurred by the institution.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: There is evidence for dysregulated cholesterol homeostasis in Huntington's disease (HD). The brain-specific cholesterol metabolite 24(S)-hydroxycholesterol (24(S)-OHC) is decreased in manifest HD. 24(S)-OHC is an endogenous positive allosteric modulator (PAM) of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor, suggesting lower 24(S)-OHC may contribute to NMDA receptor hypofunction in HD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPatient-Specific Prediction of Immediate Phase Lung Microwave Ablation Zone Size.
J Vasc Interv Radiol
November 2024
Purpose: To investigate the effect of patient and tumor-specific characteristics on the size of immediate phase lung microwave ablation (MWA) zone and establish a prediction model.
Materials And Methods: This institutional review board (IRB)-approved, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-compliant cohort included 164 lesions from 99 patients who underwent computed tomography (CT)-guided lung MWA, and the 2-dimensional elliptical ground-glass opacity ablation zone was measured. Duration, maximum temperature, tumor depth, presence of emphysema, history of ipsilateral lung ablation, surgery, and radiotherapy were recorded.