A machine learning-based score for precise echocardiographic assessment of cardiac remodelling in hypertensive young adults.

Aims: Accurate staging of hypertension-related cardiac changes, before the development of significant left ventricular hypertrophy, could help guide early prevention advice. We evaluated whether a novel semi-supervised machine learning approach could generate a clinically meaningful summary score of cardiac remodelling in hypertension.

Methods And Results: A contrastive trajectories inference approach was applied to data collected from three UK studies of young adults.

Neglected cervical meningocele in an adult: illustrative case.

Background: Posterior cervical meningoceles are rare in adults because most are surgically excised early in life. Such meningoceles in adults are mostly presented as a cystic mass and their presentation as a solid mass is very rare.

Observations: An asymptomatic adult with cervical meningocele presented as a congenital midline skin covered solid mass in the posterior aspect of the neck is presented.