Medicine (Baltimore)
November 2023
Rationale: Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome is a neurological condition characterized by headache, convulsions, altered consciousness, and visual disturbance with specific radiological features, which is characterized by contrast enhancement in the occipital lobe on T2-weighted image. We report a case of sudden visual impairment of both eyes 6 days after childbirth diagnosed as postpartum preeclampsia and posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) through radiological examination.
Patient Concerns: A 31-year-old female patient with headache and visual disturbance visited the clinic.
Purpose: To modify the preprocessing technique, which was previously proposed, improving compressibility of computed tomography (CT) images to cover the diversity of three dimensional configurations of different body parts and to evaluate the robustness of the technique in terms of segmentation correctness and increase in reversible compression ratio (CR) for various CT examinations.
Methods: This study had institutional review board approval with waiver of informed patient consent. A preprocessing technique was previously proposed to improve the compressibility of CT images by replacing pixel values outside the body region with a constant value resulting in maximizing data redundancy.
Objective: The purpose of our study was to assess the acceptable compression threshold for JPEG2000 compression of CT images used for measuring coronary artery calcification scores (CACS) in terms of variability.
Materials And Methods: In a retrospective review, 80 patients who had undergone CT for determination of the CACS were compiled in four subsets (20 scans each) according to CACS: 0, subset A; > 0 to ≥ 100, subset B; > 100 to ≤ 400, subset C; and > 400, subset D. Each scan was compressed using eight compression ratios (CRs).
A simple fluorescent probe based on an ortho-hydroxy aldehyde-functionalized coumarin showed selective responses to homocysteine and cysteine by fluorescence turn-on.
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