Publications by authors named "S D Wullschleger"
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- - The study compared the effectiveness of positron emission tomography (PET) combined with computed tomography (CT) versus CT alone for staging colorectal cancer (CRC) in nodal involvement and distant metastasis before treatment.
- - Results indicated that PET/CT had higher sensitivity in detecting both lymph node involvement (66.7% vs. 55.2%) and distant metastases (82.5% vs. 53.6%) compared to CT alone.
- - The findings suggest that PET/CT is a more accurate staging tool for CRC, making it valuable for treatment planning and potentially improving patient outcomes.
Cyanobacterial blooms require monitoring, as they pose a threat to ecosystems and human health, especially by the release of toxins. Along with widely reported microcystins, cyanobacteria coproduce other bioactive metabolites; however, information about their dynamics in surface waters is sparse. We investigated dynamics across full bloom successions throughout a five-year lake monitoring campaign (Greifensee, Switzerland) spanning 150 sampling dates.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe prognosis of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is limited, especially for elderly or unfit patients not eligible for hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantation. The disease is driven by leukemic stem cells (LSCs), which are characterized by clonal heterogeneity and resistance to conventional therapy. These cells are therefore believed to be a major cause of progression and relapse.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHuman activity is a major driver of ecological and evolutionary change in wild populations and can have diverse effects on eukaryotic organisms as well as on environmental and host-associated microbial communities. Although host-microbiome interactions can be a major determinant of host fitness, few studies consider the joint responses of hosts and their microbiomes to anthropogenic changes. In freshwater ecosystems, wastewater is a widespread anthropogenic stressor that represents a multifarious environmental perturbation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To assess the accuracy of low-dose dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) to differentiate uric acid from non-uric acid kidney stones in two generations of dual-source DECT with stone composition analysis as the reference standard.
Methods: Patients who received a low-dose unenhanced DECT for the detection or follow-up of urolithiasis and stone extraction with stone composition analysis between January 2020 and January 2022 were retrospectively included. Collected stones were characterized using X-ray diffraction.