Publications by authors named "M Potts"
Objective: Dolichoectatic vertebrobasilar aneurysms (DVBAs) are expansions of arterial tissue leading to aneurysmal formations without an obvious neck. Their natural history is poorly understood; usually patients are admitted with thromboembolic complications and/or neurological symptoms from the mass effect. There have not been international collective data, and correct timing for highly risky treatments has been under discussion.
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- The study investigates the relationship between body weight and leukopenia in solid organ transplant recipients on valganciclovir (VGC) prophylaxis to prevent cytomegalovirus disease.
- Over half (52%) of the patients developed leukopenia, with those having a higher starting weight (97.9 kg) less likely to experience it compared to lower-weight patients (90.7 kg).
- Results indicate that each 1 kg increase in body weight decreases the risk of leukopenia by about 1.7%, highlighting the importance of considering patient weight in VGC dosing.
Many tasks performed in image-guided procedures can be cast as pose estimation problems, where specific projections are chosen to reach a target in 3D space. In this study, we construct a framework for fluoroscopic pose estimation and compare alternative loss functions and volumetric scene representations. We first develop a differentiable projection (DiffProj) algorithm for the efficient computation of Digitally Reconstructed Radiographs (DRRs) from either Cone-Beam Computerized Tomography (CBCT) or neural scene representations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe study how sharp signatures of fractionalization emerge in nonlinear spectroscopy experiments on spin liquids with separated energy scales. Our model is that of dipolar-octupolar rare earth pyrochlore materials, prime candidates for realizing quantum spin ice. This family of three-dimensional quantum spin liquids exhibits fractionalization of spin degrees of freedom into spinons charged under an emergent U(1) gauge field.
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- Middle meningeal artery embolization (MMAE) is gaining popularity as a treatment for chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH), but the specific outcomes of bilateral MMAE (bMMAE) have not been thoroughly analyzed in existing research.
- In a study involving 28 patients aged around 75, only 17.9% showed complete resolution of their bilateral CSDH after bMMAE, with some still experiencing symptoms, leading to reoperation in 17.9% of cases.
- The results suggest that while bMMAE may be effective, more research is needed to identify which patients would benefit the most from this treatment approach.