Publications by authors named "Tamara Faundez"
Background And Importance: The Swiss Emergency Triage Scale (SETS) is an adult triage tool used in several emergency departments. It has been recently adapted to the pediatric population but, before advocating for its use, performance assessment of this tool is needed.
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess the reliability and the accuracy of the pediatric version of the SETS for the triage of pediatric patients.
Article Synopsis
- Diabetic striatopathy is a recognized complication of diabetes primarily seen in adults, with very few cases reported in children.
- This case study details a teenager diagnosed with diabetic striatopathy experiencing hemichorea-hemiballism alongside symptoms like weight loss and increased thirst and urination.
- The patient's glycemia control led to quick recovery, despite the presence of confirmed striatal lesions visible through MRI, and the study also explores potential underlying mechanisms of this condition.
The segmentation of MR images of the neonatal brain is an essential step in the study and evaluation of infant brain development. State-of-the-art methods for adult brain MRI segmentation are not applicable to the neonatal brain, due to large differences in structure and tissue properties between newborn and adult brains. Existing newborn brain MRI segmentation methods either rely on manual interaction or require the use of atlases or templates, which unavoidably introduces a bias of the results towards the population that was used to derive the atlases.
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