Introduction: Acute lobar nephronia is a focal interstitial inflammation of the kidney healing well on conservative therapy.
Objective: Authors call attention on this rare pathological entity and emphasize the role of the imaging modalities in making the diagnosis. Short literature review is also given.
Patient And Methods: An 11 months old babyboy presented with febrile seizure and palpable right flank mass. Abdominal sonography and CT were done.
Results: Urine analysis gave evidence of upper urinary tract infection. Hyperechogenic solid mass in the right kidney was seen on sonography. Diagnosis of infection suspected on sonography has been confirmed by abdominal CT scan and possibility of tumor has been ruled out. Acute lobar nephronia was diagnosed and the patient has been treated successfully with antibiotics.
Conclusion: Acute lobar nephronia may mimic both abscess and tumor. Differential diagnosis is very important because treatment of acute lobar nephronia is nonsurgical.
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Br J Hosp Med (Lond)
January 2025
Department of Pediatrics, Huoqiu First People's Hospital, Lu'an, Anhui, China.
Lobar pneumonia is an acute inflammation with increasing incidence globally. Delayed treatment can lead to severe complications, posing life-threatening risks. Thus, it is crucial to determine effective treatment methods to improve the prognosis of children with lobar pneumonia.
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January 2025
Alzheimer Center Limburg, Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
Importance: Baseline cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) and APOE ε4 allele copy number are important risk factors for amyloid-related imaging abnormalities in patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) receiving therapies to lower amyloid-β plaque levels.
Objective: To provide prevalence estimates of any, no more than 4, or fewer than 2 CMBs in association with amyloid status, APOE ε4 copy number, and age.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This cross-sectional study used data included in the Amyloid Biomarker Study data pooling initiative (January 1, 2012, to the present [data collection is ongoing]).
Curr Med Imaging
January 2025
Department of Radiology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital [PUMCH], Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College [CAMS & PUMC], China.
Aims To evaluate the utility of unenhanced spectral imaging, electron density (ED) and overlay electron density (OED) images for assessing pulmonary embolisms in patients with suspected or confirmed acute pulmonary embolism (APE). Background Multiple spectral images can be extrapolated from spectral detector CT (SDCT), ED and OED images. ED and OED images are highly sensitive to moisture-rich tissues.
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December 2024
Department of Pediatrics, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel.
Introduction: Acute lobar nephronia (ALN) is a focal renal infection without liquefaction, historically regarded as rare in the pediatric population, yet recent literature suggests it may be under-diagnosed, which may result in the formation of renal abscess and future renal scarring.
Methods: The clinical presentation, investigations, treatment and long-term outcomes of 5 patients diagnosed with ALN was described and literature review was conducted by reviewing publications in PubMed using the keywords "acute lobar nephronia" and "pediatric".
Results: Three patients were males, aged 1 to 11 years.
Stroke Vasc Neurol
December 2024
Department of Neurology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China
Background And Objective: We investigated the association of alleles with CT-based cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) markers including subarachnoid extension (SAE) and finger-like projection (FLP).
Methods: We included patients with acute primary supratentorial intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) from a multicentre cohort in China. First, the association of with ICH location (lobar vs non-lobar) was evaluated.
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