Water/fat-resolved whole-heart Dixon coronary MRA: an initial comparison.

Purpose: To improve coronary vessel visualization in whole-heart coronary magnetic resonance angiography (CMRA), fat suppression is typically applied. However, recent studies have shown that cardiac fat can also have diagnostic value. To enhance CMRA image quality by improved fat suppression and to provide additionally fat-only information highly resolved, dual-echo Dixon CMRA approaches have been developed.

[Fatal course of measles infection in a patient with a low-grade malignant non-Hodgkin lymphoma].

History And Clinical Findings: A 35-year-old man, for 6 years known to have non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) was admitted because of deteriorating general condition, drowsiness and 11 days of flu-like symptoms. A generalized rash had been noted 5 days after onset of symptoms. His 2-year-old son had fallen ill with measles a few days earlier.

[Malignant atrophic papulosis].

A 53-year-old woman had noticed numerous papules on her trunk and proximal parts of the limbs. They had healed with a central scar surrounded by a reddish wall. Four months later she had to undergo laparotomy for ileus, resulting from a perforation in the region of the middle jejunum: it was excised and sutured over.

Lipoproteins and apolipoproteins in human pleural effusions.

We investigated the lipoproteins and apoproteins in human serum and pleural effusions of different origin: transudates, inflammatory exudates, and malignant exudates. Transudates had a low cholesterol content of 35 +/- 12 mg/dl (mean +/- SD) because of low levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol--representing 16% of serum levels--whereas inflammatory exudates (cholesterol 92 +/- 26 mg/dl) and malignant exudates (cholesterol 86 +/- 6 mg/dl) exhibited high levels of LDL, with 67% and 69% of serum levels. Apolipoprotein (apo) B level corresponded with LDL and presented with multiple split-products in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in exudative effusions.