Communicating cancer treatment with pictogram-based timeline visualizations.

Objective: This study evaluated the legibility, comprehension, and clinical usability of visual timelines for communicating cancer treatment paths. We examined how these visual aids enhance participants' and patients' understanding of their treatment plans.

Materials And Methods: The study included 2 online surveys and 1 in-person survey with hematology cancer patients.

Brain functional effects of cognitive behavioral therapy for depression: A systematic review of task-based fMRI studies.

Background: Depressive disorders are associated with alterations in brain function, affecting processes such as affective and reward processing and emotion regulation. However, the influence of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) on the neuronal patterns remains inadequately understood. Therefore, this review systematically summarizes longitudinal fMRI brain activity changes in depressive patients treated with CBT and their association with symptom remission.

Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction in Acute Cholestasis-Induced Liver Injury.

Background: Previous studies have shown cardiac abnormalities in acute liver injury, suggesting a potential role in the associated high mortality.

Methods: We designed an experimental study exploring the short-term effects of acute cholestasis-induced liver injury on cardiac function and structure in a rodent bile duct ligation (BDL) model to elucidate the potential interplay. Thirty-seven male rats were subjected to BDL surgery ( = 28) or served as sham-operated ( = 9) controls.

Evaluation of score parameters for severity assessment of surgery and liver cirrhosis in rats.

Severity assessment in animals is an ongoing field of research. In particular, the question of objectifiable and meaningful parameters of score-sheets, as well as their best combination, arise. This retrospective analysis investigates the suitability of a score-sheet for assessing severity and seeks to optimise it for predicting survival in 89 male Sprague Dawley rats (), during an experiment evaluating the influence of liver cirrhosis by bile duct ligation (BDL) on vascular healing.

[Anesthesia for aortic valve stenosis : Anesthesiological management of patients with aortic valve stenosis during noncardiac surgery].

Aortic valve stenosis is a common condition that requires an anesthesiologist's in-depth knowledge of the pathophysiology, diagnostics and perioperative features of the disease. A newly diagnosed aortic valve stenosis is often initially identified from the anamnesis (dyspnea, syncope, angina pectoris) or a suspicious auscultation finding during the anesthesiologist's preoperative assessment. Interdisciplinary collaboration is essential to ensure the optimal management of these patients in the perioperative setting.