Abdominal obesity and cardiometabolic risk markers: A comparative analysis of waist circumference, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, and magnetic resonance imaging techniques.

Background And Aims: This study compares three methods to determine central adiposity (waist circumference -WC - and visceral adipose tissue - VAT - estimated by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry - DXA, and by magnetic resonance imaging - MRI) in their ability to predict increases in cardiometabolic risk (CMR) markers in young individuals. We examined their associations with CMR in 47 men and women aged 25-40.

Methods And Results: VAT mass was assessed using DXA and MRI.

Comparison between unilateral and bilateral clubfoot treated with Ponseti method at walking age: static and dynamic assessment.

This study evaluated the static, postural, dynamic, and clinical outcomes among five groups of patients: a bilateral CTEV (congenital talipes equinovarus) group treated with tenotomy (n = 14), bilateral CTEV group treated conservatively (n = 6), unilateral CTEV group treated with tenotomy (n = 7), unilateral CTEV group treated conservatively (n = 3), and control group (n = 20). Data were collected through baropodometric examinations and clinical evaluations using Pirani, clubfoot assessment protocol, foot and ankle disability index (FADI), and American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society scores. Bilateral CTEV patients treated with tenotomy showed no statistically significant differences compared to healthy controls.

Foreign Body Perforating the Descending Colon Incidentally Detected on 18F-FDG PET/CT.

A 78-year-old woman was diagnosed having unresectable tongue cancer 6 months ago, for which she received radiation therapy. She was on enteral nutrition for more than 2 months due to dysphagia and underwent an 18F-FDG PET/CT for restaging. The images showed uptake in a left cervical node.

Surgical Treatment of Periarticular Distal Radius Fracture in Elderly: A Systematic Review.

: The treatment of periarticular distal radius fractures remains challenging. Different surgical treatment options have been proposed as alternatives to conservative treatment. This systematic review aims to compare the functional outcomes, radiological outcomes, and complications among volar locking plates (VLPs), Kirschner-wire fixations, and external fixations (EFs) for distal radius fractures in patients aged 60 years and older.

Open Reduction and Internal Fixation with Plate and Screw versus Triplanar External Fixation in the Surgical Treatment of Calcaneal Fractures: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

: The treatment of displaced intra-articular calcaneal fractures (DIACF) is debated. This study compares open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) with minimally invasive osteosynthesis (MIOS). : We conducted a retrospective study on 70 patients with DIACF treated between January 2018 and September 2022, divided into ORIF ( = 50) and MIOS ( = 20) groups.