Impact of vascular supply variability on the prognosis of meningioma patients: a retrospective study based on territory arterial spin labeling.

Background: Territorial arterial spin labelling (t-ASL) could be an alternative method to digital subtraction angiography (DSA) when evaluating feeding arteries by previous reports, however, blood supply variations on meningioma prognosis remains unclear. In this study, the prognosis of meningiomas mainly supplied by the internal carotid artery (ICA) and external carotid artery (ECA) was compared, and relevant clinical factors were investigated.

Methods: t-ASL technique was employed to categorized pathologically-confirmed meningioma patients into the ICA, ECA, ICA co-supplied, and non-ICA co-supplied group.

Elevated circulating levels of GFAP associated with reduced volumes in hippocampal subregions linked to mild cognitive impairment among community-dwelling elderly individuals.

Objective: Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers are challenging to use for diagnosing mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in large populations, and there is an urgent need for new blood biomarkers. The aim of this study is to investigate whether astrocyte activation is correlated with hippocampal atrophy, and to assess the potential of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) as a biomarker for diagnosing MCI among community-dwelling older individuals.

Methods: This cross-sectional study included 107 older adults.

Association between postterm birth and adverse growth outcomes in children aged 3-6 years: A national retrospective cohort study.

Background: Gestational age significantly influences children's growth and development. Yet, the effect of postterm birth (gestation beyond 42 weeks) on children's growth outcomes remains underexplored.

Objectives: This study aimed to assess the impact of postterm birth on adverse growth outcomes in children using a nationally representative sample from China.

Characterization of parotid gland tumors: Whole-tumor histogram analysis of diffusion weighted imaging, diffusion kurtosis imaging, and intravoxel incoherent motion - A pilot study.

Purpose: To investigate the diagnostic performance of histogram features of diffusion parameters in characterizating parotid gland tumors.

Method: From December 2018 to January 2023, patients who underwent diffusion weighted imaging (DWI), diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI), and intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) were consecutively enrolled in this retrospective study. The histogram features of diffusion parameters, including apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), diffusion coefficient (Dk), diffusion kurtosis (K), pure diffusion coefficient (D), pseudo-diffusion coefficient (DP), and perfusion fraction (FP) were analyzed.

MRI characteristics predict BRAF V600E status in gangliogliomas and pleomorphic xanthoastrocytomas and provide survival prognostication.

Background: mutation is a common genomic alteration in gangliogliomas (GGs) and pleomorphic xanthoastrocytomas (PXAs) with prognostic and therapeutic implications.

Purpose: To investigate the ability of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features to predict status in GGs and PXAs and their prognostic values.

Material And Methods: A cohort of 44 patients with histologically confirmed GGs and PXAs was reviewed retrospectively.

Environmental Determinants for Snail Density in Dongting Lake Region: An Ecological Study Incorporating Spatial Regression.

This study explored the environmental determinants of different months on snail density measured in April at different types of snail habitats (marshlands, inner embankments, and hills) by considering spatial effects. Data were gathered from surveys on snails that were conducted in Hunan Province in April 2016, and information was collected on environmental variables. To investigate the environmental factors influencing snail density in various types of snail habitats, the ordinary least square model, spatial lag model, and spatial error model were all used.

Performances of clinical characteristics and radiological findings in identifying COVID-19 from suspected cases.

Background: To identify effective factors and establish a model to distinguish COVID-19 patients from suspected cases.

Methods: The clinical characteristics, laboratory results and initial chest CT findings of suspected COVID-19 patients in 3 institutions were retrospectively reviewed. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression were performed to identify significant features.

Longitudinal Radiological Findings in Patients With COVID-19 With Different Severities: From Onset to Long-Term Follow-Up After Discharge.

This study aimed to investigate the evolution of radiological findings in the patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia with different severities from onset to 1-year follow-up and identify the predictive factors for different pulmonary lesion absorption status in the patients infected with COVID-19. A retrospective study was performed on the clinical and radiological features of 175 patients with COVID-19 pneumonia hospitalized at three institutions from January 21 to March 20, 2020. All the chest CT scans during hospitalization and follow-ups after discharge were collected.

Distance to highway and factory density related to lung cancer death and associated spatial heterogeneity in effects in Jiading District, Shanghai.

This study aimed to determine the spatial effects of traffic- and industrial-related pollution on the mortality for lung cancer (LC). We conducted a retrospective cohort study by using the data from LC registry in Jiading District for the period from 2002 to 2012. Standard parametric model with Weibull distribution was used for spatial survival analysis.

Machine learning algorithms to predict the 1 year unfavourable prognosis for advanced schistosomiasis.

Short-term prognosis of advanced schistosomiasis has not been well studied. We aimed to construct prognostic models using machine learning algorithms and to identify the most important predictors by utilising routinely available data under the government medical assistance programme. An established database of advanced schistosomiasis in Hunan, China was utilised for analysis.

Cohort study of patients with Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis in China: evaluation of risk models and new predictor of pulmonary consolidation on computed tomography.

Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) are rare but severe diseases. This study aimed to validate the predictive ability of risk models in patients with SJS/TEN and propose possible refinement in China. Patients in the Department of Dermatology of Huashan Hospital from January 2008 to January 2019 were included.

Prevalence and incidence of advanced schistosomiasis and risk factors for case fatality in Hunan Province, China.

Advanced schistosomiasis has become a major public health problem in areas with a heavy burden of schistosomiasis infection. Our objective was to determine the incidence and prevalence of advanced schistosomiasis and risk factors associated with case fatality of advanced schistosomiasis. Data were abstracted from hospitalization records of patients with advanced schistosomiasis from Hunan Province, China.

Geographical Variation of COPD Mortality and Related Risk Factors in Jiading District, Shanghai.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the fourth leading cause of death in China. Although numerous studies have been conducted to determine the risk factors for COPD mortality such as ambient air pollution, the results are not fully consistent. This study included mortality analysis and a case-control design by using the data extracted from the Mortality Registration System in Jiading District, Shanghai.

Inequalities in changing mortality and life expectancy in Jiading District, Shanghai, 2002-2018.

Background: Improvements of population health in China have been unevenly distributed among different sexes and regions. Mortality Registration System provides an opportunity for timely assessments of mortality trend and inequalities.

Methods: Causes of death were reclassified following the method of Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD).

Spatio-temporal variations of emerging sites infested with schistosome-transmitting Oncomelania hupensis in Hunan Province, China, 1949-2016.

Background: Constant emerging sites infested with Oncomelania hupensis (O. hupensis) impede the goal realization of eliminating schistosomiasis. The study assessed the spatial and temporal distributions of new Oncomelania snail habitats in Hunan Province from 1949 to 2016.

The Evaluation of Radiomic Models in Distinguishing Pilocytic Astrocytoma From Cystic Oligodendroglioma With Multiparametric MRI.

Purpose: To assess whether a machine-learning model based on texture features extracted from multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging could yield an accurate diagnosis in differentiating pilocytic astrocytoma from cystic oligodendrogliomas.

Materials And Methods: The preoperative images from multisequences were used for tumor segmentation. Radiomic features were extracted and selected for machine-learning models.

Diffusion tensor imaging in the evaluation of the long-term efficacy of HBO2 therapy in rats after traumatic spinal cord injury.

Objective: This study explored the feasibility of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in the evaluation of the long-term efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2) therapy in rats after traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) with different degrees of injury. Method: Adult Sprague-Dawley rats (total n = 60) were randomly separated into three groups of mild, moderate and severe TSCI (20 rats per group). Each group was then randomly divided into TSCI and TSCI+HBO2 subgroups (10 rats per subgroup).

Prognostic value of pretreatment MRI texture features in breast cancer brain metastasis treated with Gamma Knife radiosurgery.

Background: Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKS) was recommended for treating patients with breast cancer brain metastasis (BCBM), but predictions of the existing prognostic models for therapeutic responsiveness vary substantially.

Purpose: To investigate the prognostic value of pretreatment clinical, MRI radiologic, and texture features in patients with BCBM undergoing GKS.

Material And Methods: The data of 81 BCBMs in 44 patients were retrospectively reviewed.

Magnetic resonance imaging differentiates locoregional flaps from free flaps after reconstructive surgical treatment of tongue cancer.

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features of reconstruction with locoregional flaps (LRFs) with free flaps (FFs) after surgical treatment for tongue cancer.

Study Design: In total, 115 cases of postoperative tongue carcinoma (67 cases of LRF surgery and 48 cases of FF surgery) were retrospectively reviewed. All patients had undergone nonenhanced and contrast-enhanced MRI at 0-4, 5-12, and 13-48 months after surgery.

A cation exchange strategy to construct a targeting nanoprobe for enhanced -weighted MR imaging of tumors.

Excellent imaging performance and good biocompatibility of contrast agents are considered as prerequisites for accurate tumor diagnosis. In this study, a novel imaging nanoprobe with actively targeting performance based on ultrasmall paramagnetic iron oxide (USPIO) nanoparticles was constructed by a facile cation exchange strategy followed by conjugation with transferrin (Tf). The stable gadolinium (Gd3+) chelation endows the nanoparticles (NPs) with a low value of r2/r1 (1.

Influence of coarse particulate matter on chickenpox in Jiading District, Shanghai, 2009-2018: A distributed lag non-linear time series analysis.

Although the link between ambient air pollution and some infectious diseases has been studied, few studies have explored so far, the relationship between chickenpox and particulate matter. Daily chickenpox counts in Jiading District, Shanghai, were collected from 2009 to 2018. Time series analysis was conducted to describe the trends of the daily number of chickenpox cases and the concentration of particulate matter 10 μm or less (PM10).

Development and Validation of a Prognostic Nomogram Based on Clinical and CT Features for Adverse Outcome Prediction in Patients with COVID-19.

Objective: The purpose of our study was to investigate the predictive abilities of clinical and computed tomography (CT) features for outcome prediction in patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Materials And Methods: The clinical and CT data of 238 patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 in our two hospitals were retrospectively analyzed. One hundred sixty-six patients (103 males; age 43.

Differentiating intracranial solitary fibrous tumor/hemangiopericytoma from meningioma using diffusion-weighted imaging and susceptibility-weighted imaging.

Purpose: Intracranial solitary fibrous tumor/hemangiopericytoma (SFT/HPC) and meningioma are difficult to distinguish owing to their overlapping imaging manifestation on routine magnetic resonance imaging. The purpose of this study was to assess whether SFT/HPC can be differentiated from meningioma with diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI).

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed DWI, SWI, conventreional MR, and CT imaging features of 16 patients with SFT/HPC and 96 patients with meningioma.

Evaluation of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for spinal cord injury in rats with different treatment course using diffusion tensor imaging.

Study Design: Animal study.

Objectives: To evaluate the efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy for spinal cord injury (SCI) in rats with different treatment course using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).

Setting: Hospital in Fuzhou, China.

[Prevalence of infection and effect of albendazole treatment among residents in two communities of Zhongshan City].

Objective: To understand the prevalence of infection among residents in two communities of Zhongshan City, and evaluate the effect of albendazole treatment, so as to offer the evidence for formulating the strategy of clonorchiasis prevention and control.

Methods: The stool specimens were collected from the residents of two comprehensive demonstration areas, and the eggs of were detected by Kato-Katz technique. Those who were tested positive were treated with albendazole (0.