Towards safer imaging: A comparative study of deep learning-based denoising and iterative reconstruction in intraindividual low-dose CT scans using an in-vivo large animal model.

Purpose: Computed tomography (CT) scans are a significant source of medically induced radiation exposure. Novel deep learning-based denoising (DLD) algorithms have been shown to enable diagnostic image quality at lower radiation doses than iterative reconstruction (IR) methods. However, most comparative studies employ low-dose simulations due to ethical constraints.

How Real Are Computed Tomography Low Dose Simulations? An Investigational In-Vivo Large Animal Study.

Objectives: CT low-dose simulation methods have gained significant traction in protocol development, as they lack the risk of increased patient exposure. However, in-vivo validations of low-dose simulations are as uncommon as prospective low-dose image acquisition itself. Therefore, we investigated the extent to which simulated low-dose CT datasets resemble their real-dose counterparts.

Role of Rendezvous-Procedure in the Treatment of Complications after Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Introduction: Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is one of the most commonly performed bariatric procedures worldwide with good results, high patient acceptance, and low complication rates. The most relevant perioperative complication is the staple line leak. For the treatment of this complication, endoscopic negative pressure therapy has proven particularly effective.

Endoscopic Vacuum Therapy for Staple Line Leaks after Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Purpose: Management of staple line leaks (SLL) after sleeve gastrectomy (SG) is challenging. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a novel endoscopic vacuum therapy (EVT) modality in the management of sleeve leaks.

Materials And Methods: Eight patients were treated with EVT for SLL.

Automated closed-loop management of body temperature using forced-air blankets: preliminary feasibility study in a porcine model.

Background: Management of a patient's body temperature is an important aspect of care that should be addressed by targeted temperature management (TTM). Often, non-invasive methods like forced-air blankets are used. Especially in the operating room this management may be a subsidiary and repetitive task requiring constant observation of the patient's body temperature and adaption using the limited set of available settings.

Pathophysiological central nervous system changes in a porcine model of acetaminophen-induced acute liver failure.

Background: Critical care management of patients suffering from acute liver failure (ALF) continues to be challenging. Animal models studying the pathophysiological central nervous system alterations during the course of ALF provide an opportunity to improve diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. The aim of this study was to analyse the course of cerebral oxygenation in addition to conventional neuromonitoring during the course of acetaminophen-induced ALF.

Algorithm-based arterial blood sampling recognition increasing safety in point-of-care diagnostics.

Aim: To detect blood withdrawal for patients with arterial blood pressure monitoring to increase patient safety and provide better sample dating.

Methods: Blood pressure information obtained from a patient monitor was fed as a real-time data stream to an experimental medical framework. This framework was connected to an analytical application which observes changes in systolic, diastolic and mean pressure to determine anomalies in the continuous data stream.

Porcine model characterizing various parameters assessing the outcome after acetaminophen intoxication induced acute liver failure.

Aim: To investigate the changes of hemodynamic and laboratory parameters during the course of acute liver failure following acetaminophen overdose.

Methods: Eight pigs underwent a midline laparotomy following jejunal catheter placement for further acetaminophen intoxication and positioning of a portal vein Doppler flow-probe. Acute liver failure was realized by intrajejunal acetaminophen administration in six animals, two animals were sham operated.

Correlation of the intracranial pressure to the central venous pressure in the late phase of acute liver failure in a porcine model.

Volume loading is a common method used to ensure adequate circulation. However, in the late phase of acute liver failure complications that often lead to death are cerebral swelling and brainstem edema, which are considered to result from increasing intracranial pressure (ICP). In former studies cerebral venous pressure (CVP) and ICP were reported to be independent entities.

The enterohepatic circulation of amanitin: kinetics and therapeutical implications.

Background: Amatoxin poisoning induces a delayed onset of acute liver failure which might be explained by the prolonged persistence of the toxin in the enterohepatic circulation. Aim of the study was to demonstrate amanitin kinetics in the enterohepatic circulation.

Methods: Four pigs underwent α-amanitin intoxication receiving 0.