Impact of type 2 diabetes mellitus on the prevalence of apical periodontitis in endodontically treated and untreated teeth.

Apical periodontitis (AP) is a common dental condition that can be influenced by diabetes mellitus. This study aimed to investigate the impact of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) on the prevalence and severity of AP, considering the adequacy of endodontic treatments. A total of 180 patients selected based on specific dental criteria from a private clinic in Oradea, Romania, were included in this study.

Automated Echocardiographic Detection of Severe Coronary Artery Disease Using Artificial Intelligence.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to establish whether an artificially intelligent (AI) system can be developed to automate stress echocardiography analysis and support clinician interpretation.

Background: Coronary artery disease is the leading global cause of mortality and morbidity and stress echocardiography remains one of the most commonly used diagnostic imaging tests.

Methods: An automated image processing pipeline was developed to extract novel geometric and kinematic features from stress echocardiograms collected as part of a large, United Kingdom-based prospective, multicenter, multivendor study.

Precision Medicine and Artificial Intelligence: A Pilot Study on Deep Learning for Hypoglycemic Events Detection based on ECG.

Tracking the fluctuations in blood glucose levels is important for healthy subjects and crucial diabetic patients. Tight glucose monitoring reduces the risk of hypoglycemia, which can result in a series of complications, especially in diabetic patients, such as confusion, irritability, seizure and can even be fatal in specific conditions. Hypoglycemia affects the electrophysiology of the heart.

Contributions to the biology of the hypoxic liver. Note I. Histological and electronmicroscopical aspects of the liver in chronic congestive heart failure.

A study was carried out on the histological and ultrastructural aspects of liver fragments harvested from 62 patients with acquired or congenital heart disease before open heart surgery under extracorporeal circulation. Against a background of passive congestion in the pericentrolobular and mediolobular areas, various mitochondrial lesions and dilation of the endoplasmic reticulum with a reduced number of ribosomes, the presence of microbodies, biliary pigments, lipid vacuoles, lysosomol hyperplasia and activation, glycogen depletion could be seen, as well as extensive collagenization of Disse's spaces, fibroblast hyperplasia and Kupffer cell activation. These lesions are more reduced in the periportal zones.