RADIOLOGICAL IMAGING IN RENAL TRANSPLANTATION.

- Radiological diagnostic methods have a significant role in the preoperative and postoperative care of patients after kidney transplantation. Improvement and innovations in technology, but also the growing experience of the radiologists who deal with kidney transplant patients as part of the transplant team lead to earlier detection of complications in the postoperative period, which are the leading cause of transplant failure. In this article, we describe, through diagnostic imaging examples, detailed evaluation of all possible complications that can occur after kidney transplantation, with evaluation of different possible diagnostic methods that can be used in the preoperative assessment and postoperative follow up and care of the transplanted patient.

Granulocytic sarcoma of the brain in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia.

Granulocytic sarcoma is extramedullary tumor composed of immature leukemic cells most frequently located in close proximity to bone, but it also can be found in the skin, breast, gastrointestinal tract, ovaries and brain. Granulocytic sarcoma may arise during the course of leukemia or precede its development in the bone marrow. The majority of reported cases of granulocytic sarcomas in acute myleoid leukemia have chromosome translocation t(8;21).

Solutions of complete jump relations at discontinuities in a two-and-half-dimensional reconnection model.

We present an analytic solution of the complete set of jump relations at the rotational discontinuity and the slow-mode shock in a two-and-half-dimensional (2 1/2D) symmetric reconnection model. The solution is used for analyzing the outflow jet characteristics in dependence on the speed and the incidence angle of the inflowing plasma, for a given shear of the inflow magnetic field. It is found that the magnetosonic Mach number of the outflow depends significantly on the incidence angle, the effect being more prominent at larger reconnection rates.

Rett syndrome: an analysis using Sartwell's incubation period model.

Evidence suggests that Rett syndrome is a genetic disorder; however, an etiologic genetic model has yet to be identified. The purpose of this study was to apply a statistical model, Sartwell's incubation period model, to estimate the incubation period of Rett syndrome and postulate further on the etiology of Rett syndrome. Sartwell's model was used to test the hypothesis that the age of onset of developmental regression distributions approximate a logarithmic normal model and thus the etiologic factors of Rett syndrome occur in utero or prior to conception.

Comparison of 2-year weight loss trends in behavioral treatments of obesity: diet, exercise, and combination interventions.

Objective: The effects of three cognitive-behavioral weight control interventions for adults were compared: diet only, exercise only, and a combination of diet and exercise. This article reports 2-year follow-up data.

Design: The three interventions were compared in a randomized, experimental design.