Climatic and Seasonal Circumstances of Hypertensive Intracerebral Hemorrhage in a Worldwide Cohort.

Background And Purpose: Numerous studies have investigated the influence of meteorologic factors and seasons on the incidence of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) with ambiguous results. In the present study, data from a large, international multicenter trial in patients with ICH were used to identify seasonal and meteorologic determinants for hypertensive-ICH with greater applicability.

Methods: Patients were grouped according to the presumptive ICH cause, that is, hypertensive when located in the basal ganglia brain stem as well as cerebellum and nonhypertensive when located lobar.

Incidental findings in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging: superiority of bSSFP over T1w-HASTE for extra-cardiac findings assessment.

Incidental findings are frequent in radiological examinations and may have an impact on further patient management. The aim of this retrospective study was to analyze, which of two thoracic scout sequences is more suitable for detecting incidental extra-cardiac findings at cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI) with stress perfusion. During a 14-month period clinically indicated stress perfusion CMRI was performed in 97 consecutive patients.

Comparison of standard and delayed imaging to improve the detection rate of [Ga]PSMA I&T PET/CT in patients with biochemical recurrence or prostate-specific antigen persistence after primary therapy for prostate cancer.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess the value of dual-time point imaging in PET/CT for detection of biochemically recurrent or persistent prostate cancer, using the prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) ligand [Ga]PSMA I&T.

Methods: 240 patients who underwent a [Ga]PSMA I&T PET/CT in the context of biochemical relapse of prostate cancer were included in this retrospective analysis. Imaging consisted of a standard whole-body PET/CT (1 h p.