Background And Purpose: We aimed to evaluate GPT-4's ability to write radiology editorials and to compare these with human-written counterparts, thereby determining their real-world applicability for scientific writing.
Materials And Methods: Sixteen editorials from eight journals were included. To generate the AI-written editorials, the summary of 16 human-written editorials was fed into GPT-4.
Objective: To establish the possible relation between total caries (TC) and caries severity (CS) with the AMY1 gene copy number (AMY1GCN).
Materials And Methods: This was an observational, cross-sectional, population-based, and association study with 303 participants. Each participant underwent a complete anamnesis and stomatological check-up, and peripheral blood was obtained to extract gDNA.
Neuroimaging Clin N Am
February 2024
Assessment of cerebral vasculopathies is challenging and requires understanding the utility of different imaging methods. Various techniques are available to image the vessel lumen, each with unique advantages and disadvantages. Bolus-based CT and MR angiography requires careful timing of a contrast bolus to provide optimal luminal enhancement.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeuroimaging Clin N Am
February 2024
PRES and RCVS are increasingly recognized due to the wider use of brain MRI and increasing clinical awareness. Imaging plays a crucial role in confirming the diagnosis and guiding clinical management for PRES and RCVS. Imaging also has a pivotal role in determining the temporal progression of these entities, detecting complications, and predicting prognosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLanguage processing is influenced by sensorimotor experiences. Here, we review behavioral evidence for embodied and grounded influences in language processing across six linguistic levels of granularity. We examine (a) sub-word features, discussing grounded influences on iconicity (systematic associations between word form and meaning); (b) words, discussing boundary conditions and generalizations for the simulation of color, sensory modality, and spatial position; (c) sentences, discussing boundary conditions and applications of action direction simulation; (d) texts, discussing how the teaching of simulation can improve comprehension in beginning readers; (e) conversations, discussing how multi-modal cues improve turn taking and alignment; and (f) text corpora, discussing how distributional semantic models can reveal how grounded and embodied knowledge is encoded in texts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJACC Cardiovasc Imaging
January 2024
Background: Carotid artery atherosclerosis is highly prevalent in the general population and is a well-established risk factor for acute ischemic stroke. Although the morphological characteristics of vulnerable plaques are well recognized, there is a lack of consensus in reporting and interpreting carotid plaque features.
Objectives: The aim of this paper is to establish a consistent and comprehensive approach for imaging and reporting carotid plaque by introducing the Plaque-RADS (Reporting and Data System) score.
Alpha-methyl acyl-CoA racemase deficiency (AMACRD) is a rare peroxisomal disorder that results in the accumulation of pristanic acid and 16 cases have been reported in the literature. Here, we present three additional patients, two confirmed by genomic study and one suspected. Three siblings who were born to healthy unrelated parents developed recurrent episodes of encephalopathy, seizures, and behavioral disturbances.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThere are various mass-like lesions that can mimic true neoplasms in the spine, including inflammatory, infectious, vascular, congenital, and degenerative etiologies. While some lesions have distinctive imaging features that suggest a correct diagnosis, others have overlapping characteristics that do not allow their differentiation based solely on their imaging findings. For entities with nonspecific imaging features, knowledge of the clinical and laboratory information is critical to provide an accurate diagnosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCavernous malformations (CMs) are benign vascular malformations that maybe seen anywhere in the central nervous system. They are dynamic lesions, growing or shrinking over time and only rarely remaining stable. Size varies from a few millimeters to a few centimeters.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The allergic phenotype is responsible for more than 50% of severe asthma cases. In a stepwise approach, add-on treatments such as anti-IgE are used for severe allergic asthma (SAA). This study was aimed to describe the real-world effectiveness of omalizumab in adult and pediatric patients with SAA in Colombia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPatients with head and neck cancers are susceptible to emergencies related to tumor infiltration, systemic disorders, or treatment. Computed tomography plays a major role in imaging assessment and MRI provides further characterization. Hematologic disorders may lead to hemorrhage, thrombosis, or ischemia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Cerebral Venous Thrombosis (CVT), prior to the COVID pandemic, was rare representing 0.5 of all strokes, with the diagnosis made by MRI or CT venography. COVID-19 patients compared to general populations have a 30-60 times greater risk of CVT compared to non-affected populations, and up to a third of severe COVID patients may have thrombotic complications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFApproximately 35% of acute headaches in pregnant women are secondary to an underlying condition. Headaches are also common in the postpartum period where they occur in 30% to 40% of patients. The majority of secondary headaches are due to hypertensive disorders: preeclampsia-eclampsia, posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome, and acute arterial hypertension.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvaluation of headaches warrants a careful history and neurologic assessment to determine the need for further workup and imaging. Identifying patients who are at risk for underlying pathology is important and this includes individuals with known or suspected malignancy and those who are immunocompromised and at increased risk for intracranial infection. While CT is helpful in the acute setting and to screen for intracranial hypertension, MRI is the modality of choice for the evaluation of underlying pathologies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Objectives: The glymphatic system, which is robustly enabled during some stages of sleep, is a fluid-transport pathway that clears cerebral waste products. Most contemporary knowledge regarding the glymphatic system is inferred from rodent experiments and human research is limited. Our objective is to explore the associations between human glymphatic function, sleep, neuropsychological performance, and cerebral gray matter volumes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The proliferation of microvessels with increased permeability is thought to be the cause of peritumoral brain edema (PTBE) in metastases. The contribution of the glymphatic system to the formation of PTBE in brain metastases remains unexplored. We aimed to investigate if the PTBE volume of brain metastases is related to glymphatic dysfunction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUsing only increasing contrast enhancement as a marker of malignant transformation (MT) in gliomas has low specificity and may affect interpretation of clinical outcomes. Therefore we developed a mathematical model to predict MT of low-grade gliomas (LGGs) by considering areas of reduced apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) with increased contrast enhancement. Patients with contrast-enhancing LGGs who had contemporaneous ADC and histopathology were retrospectively analyzed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe pathogenesis of peritumoral brain edema (PTBE) in meningiomas remains unclear. The glymphatic system is recently recognized as a pathway for waste clearance and maintaining fluid balance in the brain parenchymal interstitium. We aimed to investigate if the PTBE volume of meningiomas correlates with their glymphatic function.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGeminiviruses have genomes composed of single-stranded DNA molecules and encode a rolling-circle replication (RCR) initiation protein ("Rep"), which has multiple functions. Rep binds to specific repeated DNA motifs ("iterons"), which are major determinants of virus-specific replication. The particular amino acid (aa) residues that determine the preference of a geminivirus Rep for specific iterons (i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To report our initial experience using an adult-template MAP in drug-resistant focal epilepsy in five children with apparently normal MRI.
Methods: Patients selected were highly suspicious of harboring focal structural lesions and had negative brain MRI studies. MAP was performed using a locally obtained adult database as a template.
Background: Obtaining pus for microbial cultures is one of the surgical aims in patients with brain abscess. Predictors of microbial yields are necessary as they help in treatment planning.
Purpose: To investigate the relationship between microbial culture yields of brain abscesses and their apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values and clinical characteristics.