Publications by authors named "Meagan Harrington"
Objectives: To evaluate causes of fever, including resistance patterns, in patients undergoing cancer treatment in Malawi.
Methods: In this prospective cohort study, enrolled patients undergoing chemotherapy at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi were given a thermometer. If a temperature of ≥38°C was recorded, they were instructed to return for hospitalization, standardized fever workup, and antibiotics.
This case study was designed to help students explore the molecular mechanisms of the spliceosome and how SARS-CoV-2 impacts host cell spliceosomal function while interpreting figures from primary literature (A. K. Banjeree, et al.
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- SPECT imaging, specifically with cadmium zinc telluride detectors, can accurately measure myocardial blood flow (MBF) and myocardial flow reserve (MFR), but its reliability is still being evaluated, particularly for multivessel and microvascular coronary artery disease.
- A study compared Tc-sestamibi SPECT with N-ammonia positron emission tomography in 34 patients to validate the accuracy of MBF and MFR measurements, and assessed the reproducibility of the SPECT technique in another group of 14 patients.
- Results showed that SPECT MBF measurements reconstructed with spline fitting had a strong correlation with PET results, indicating better accuracy and reproducibility, while standard reconstruction
Background: Gallium-68 Dotatate binds preferentially to somatostatin receptor (sstr) subtype-2 (sstr-2) on inflammatory cells. We aimed at investigating the potential clinical use of sstr-targeted imaging for the detection of myocardial inflammation.
Methods: Thirteen patients, with suspected cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) based on clinical history and myocardial uptake on recent fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET, were enrolled to undergo Dotatate PET after FDG-PET (median time 37 days [IQR 25-55]).
Objectives: This study sought to investigate the association of myocardial scar and ischemia with major arrhythmic events (MAEs) in patients with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≤35%.
Background: Although myocardial scar is a known substrate for ventricular arrhythmias, the association of myocardial ischemia with ventricular arrhythmias in stable patients with left ventricular dysfunction is less clear.
Methods: A total of 439 consecutive patients (median age, 70 years; 78% male; 55% with implantable cardioverter defibrillator [ICD]) referred for stress/rest positron emission tomography (PET) and resting LVEF ≤35% were included.
Aims: Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) is a leading cause of death in orthotopic heart transplant (OHT) survivors. Effective non-invasive screening methods are needed. Our aim was to investigate the added diagnostic and prognostic value of myocardial blood flow (MBF) to standard myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) with positron emission tomography (PET) for CAV detection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: It is suggested that the integration of maximal myocardial blood flow (MBF) and coronary flow reserve (CFR), termed coronary flow capacity, allows for comprehensive evaluation of patients with known or suspected stable coronary artery disease. Because management decisions are predicated on clinical risk, we sought to determine the independent and integrated value of maximal MBF and CFR for predicting cardiovascular death.
Methods: MBF and CFR were quantified in 4029 consecutive patients (median age 66 years, 50.