Nursing capacity building in health coaching with hospitalised chronic heart failure patients: a quasi-experimental study.

Background: Difficulty in adherence to treatment and self-care behaviours is a leading cause of preventable readmission in people with chronic heart failure (CHF). Although there is evidence of benefits of health coaching for the management of this situation, few interventions have been tested in the hospital setting.

Aim: To evaluate a coaching programme (H-Coaching) designed to develop nursing capacity in health coaching for chronic heart failure inpatients.

Experiences of frontline nurse managers during the COVID-19: A qualitative study.

Aim: To explore experiences of frontline nurse managers during COVID-19.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has complicated care provision and healthcare management around the world. Nurse managers have had to face the challenge of managing a crisis with precarious resources.

Imaging of skull vault tumors in adults.

The skull vault, formed by the flat bones of the skull, has a limited spectrum of disease that lies between the fields of neuro- and musculoskeletal radiology. Its unique abnormalities, as well as other ubiquitous ones, present particular features in this location. Moreover, some benign entities in this region may mimic malignancy if analyzed using classical bone-tumor criteria, and proper patient management requires being familiar with these presentations.

Magnetic resonance spectroscopy in posterior fossa tumours: the tumour spectroscopic signature may improve discrimination in adults among haemangioblastoma, ependymal tumours, medulloblastoma, and metastasis.

Objectives: Assessing a posterior fossa tumour in an adult can be challenging. Metastasis, haemangioblastoma, ependymal tumours, and medulloblastoma are the most common diagnostic possibilities. Our aim was to evaluate the contribution of magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) in the diagnosis of these entities.

(1)H-MRS is useful to reinforce the suspicion of primary central nervous system lymphoma prior to surgery.

Objectives: To assess whether (1)H-MRS may be useful to reinforce the radiological suspicion of PCNSL.

Methods: In this retrospective study, we included 546 patients with untreated brain tumours in which single-voxel spectroscopy at TE 30 ms and 136 ms had been performed. The patients were split into two subgroups: "training set" and "test set.

Features predictive of brain arteriovenous malformation hemorrhage: extrapolation to a physiologic model.

Background And Purpose: Although there is generally thought to be a 2% to 4% per annum rupture risk for brain arteriovenous malformations (bAVMs), there is no way to estimate risk for an individual patient.

Methods: In this retrospective study, patients were eligible who had nidiform bAVMs and underwent detailed pretreatment diagnostic cerebral angiography at our medical center from 1996 to 2006. All patients had superselective microcatheter angiography, and films were reviewed for the purpose of this project.

Trevo versus solitaire a head-to-head comparison between two heavy weights of clot retrieval.

Background And Purpose: Recent reports have indicated that mechanical thrombectomy may have potential to treat acute ischemic stroke. However, few comparative studies of neurothrombectomy devices are reported. This study aims to compare the safety and effectiveness of two retrievable stent systems in acute ischemic stroke patients.

Nidal embolization of brain arteriovenous malformations: rates of cure, partial embolization, and clinical outcome.

Object: Nidal embolization of brain arteriovenous malformations (bAVMs) has become an increasingly important component of bAVM treatment. However, controversy exists as to the relative efficacy and safety of single-stage versus multistage approaches to bAVM embolization, with recent literature favoring multistage strategies. The authors present a series of consecutive bAVMs embolized at their institution, demonstrating the safety and efficacy of a predominantly single-stage embolization strategy.

Trevo System: single-center experience with a novel mechanical thrombectomy device.

Background And Purpose: Recent reports have indicated that mechanical thrombectomy may have the potential to treat acute ischemic stroke. This study aims to describe the safety and effectiveness of Trevo Retriever, using Stentriever technology, in revascularization of patients with acute ischemic stroke.

Methods: Prospective study evaluating the clinical, radiological, and functional outcome of 13 patients with an angiographically verified occlusion of the anterior cerebral circulation.