Gastric Wall Fatty Infiltration in Patients Without Overt Gastrointestinal Disease.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the frequency of gastric wall fatty infiltration in patients without overt gastrointestinal disease.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective study included patients who underwent unenhanced MDCT for renal colic. Two radiologists reviewed all of the images and evaluated for the presence of gastric wall fatty infiltration.

How to perform low-dose computed tomography for renal colic in clinical practice.

Computed tomography (CT) has become the reference technique in medical imaging for renal colic, to diagnose, plan treatment and explore differential diagnosis. Its main limitation is the radiation dose, especially as urinary stone disease tends to relapse and mainly affects young people. It is therefore essential to reduce the CT radiation dose when renal colic is suspected.

Addressing requests for emergency ultrasonographic examinations when implementing teleradiology services.

Purpose: To prospectively assess how to address requests for ultrasonographic examinations when setting up an on-call teleradiology service.

Materials And Methods: An analytical prospective study was performed from January 2012 to December 2012 inclusively. All requests received for after-hours ultrasonographic examinations during this period were analyzed.

Low-dose CT with automatic tube current modulation, adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction, and low tube voltage for the diagnosis of renal colic: impact of body mass index.

Objective: The objective of our study was to evaluate the impact of body mass index (BMI) on dose, diagnostic performance, and image quality of a low-dose CT examination for renal colic.

Materials And Methods: This retrospective study included all patients who underwent a low-dose CT examination for renal colic performed during the year 2012 with automatic tube current modulation, adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction, and a low tube voltage (kV). Three readers independently reviewed all images for the presence of renal colic and evaluated diagnostic confidence and image quality.

[Coordinating nursing interventions, the role of hospitalization at home].

Hospital-at-home is a form of hospitalisation in its own right, backed by health care institutions. General and polyvalent, this form of health care provision enables patients of all ages suffering from serious, acute or chronic pathologies, often multiple and progressive, to be cared for in their own home. It guarantees a quality of care identical to that provided by an in-patient health care institution.

[Evaluation of the knowledge of physicians prescribing CT examinations on the radiation protection of patients].

Purpose: To evaluate the knowledge of physicians prescribing CT examinations on the radiation protection of patients.

Materials And Methods: A questionnaire was distributed to all clinicians on medical staff who prescribe CT examinations. Several questions related to their prescription pattern and their knowledge of radiation protection.

[Eosinophilic esophagitis: a rare cause of dysphagia].

Eosinophilic esophagitis is an unrecognized and emerging entity. Its incidence increases with allergic disorders. A 29-year-old man presented with a 4-year history of intermittent and paroxysmal dysphagia.

Study of release kinetics of small and high molecular weight substances dispersed into spray-dried ethylcellulose microspheres.

Spray-dried ethylcellulose microspheres were used as matrices for the encapsulation of a fungal lactase and/or small paramagnetic probes (Tempol or Tempo). Their dissolution in water was studied. Kinetics fitted with the model Q = kt(n) of Korsemeyer et al.

Recombinant glycosylated human interleukin-6 accelerates peripheral blood platelet count recovery in radiation-induced bone marrow depression in baboons.

This report was aimed at confirming the potential clinical use for a genetically engineered glycosylated human interleukin-6 (rhIL-6) in hematopoiesis. Its tolerance and efficacy were assessed on hematopoietic restoration after neutron radiation-induced bone marrow injury on baboons, which represent an adequate model of parallelism for studying hematology in the human. The particular neutron radiation absorption pattern in the body allows the preservation of underexposed bone marrow areas that mimics an autotransplantation-like situation.

A lifetime asymptotic growth curve for human height.

A new seven-parameter asymptotic growth curve has been applied to longitudinal data on the height of 13 boys and 14 girls from 1 month to 19 years of age. The residual sums of squares with this new curve were 7.5 times lower on the average than with the currently-used five-parameter curve No.