Purpose: We aimed to evaluate the prognostic impact of baseline clinical features and treatment procedure, including liver function measured with albumin-bilirubin (ALBI) formula and dosing methods in HCC patients treated with SIRT.
Material And Methods: The study includes 82 consecutive patients with liver-dominant HCC treated with SIRT (Y glass microspheres, TheraSphereTM) between October 2014 and September 2023. Twenty-five patients were treated with standard dosimetry, while for remaining patients, multi-compartment dosimetry was performed using Simplicit90YTM software.
Purpose: We investigated sex-related brain metabolic differences in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and healthy controls (HC).
Methods: We collected two equal-sized groups of male (m-ALS) and female ALS (f-ALS) patients (n = 130 each), who underwent 2-[F]FDG-PET at diagnosis, matched for site of onset, cognitive status and King's stage. We included 168 age-matched healthy controls, half female (f-HC) and half male (m-HC).
Several studies have demonstrated strong agreement between routine clinical visual assessment and quantification, suggesting that quantification approaches could support assessment by less experienced readers or in challenging cases. However, all studies to date have implemented a retrospective case collection, and challenging cases were generally underrepresented. We included all participants ( = 741) from the AMYPAD diagnostic and patient management study with available baseline amyloid PET quantification.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAutoimmune encephalitis (AE) is an immune-mediated condition that induces brain inflammation due to several neural-specific autoantibodies. The main triggering and predisposing factors are infections, genetics, the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors and tumors. We report a case of a 57-year-old male with a biopsy-confirmed Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) and a concomitant anti-LGI1 encephalitis discussing a possible relationship in the pathogenesis of these phenomena.
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