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EJNMMI Res
January 2025
Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, Utrecht, 3584 CX, the Netherlands.
Background: To study the feasibility of hepatobiliary scintigraphy (HBS) to improve selection and planning of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) treated with holmium-166 (Ho)-microspheres radioembolization.
Results: Thirty-one patients with HCC were included and treated with Ho- radioembolization as part of a prospective phase 2 study. Twenty-seven patients were eligible for analysis, 67% had a cirrhotic liver morphology on imaging, 70% had multifocal disease and 51% had bilobar disease.
Cureus
December 2024
Department of Pediatrics, Center Hospital of the National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Shinjuku, JPN.
Coagulase-negative (CoNS) is a rare cause of UTIs in children and is often regarded as a contaminant in urine samples. We report a case of acute focal bacterial nephritis (AFBN) and bacteremia caused by following an upper respiratory infection in a pediatric patient. The patient, a four-year-old girl, presented with fever, cough, and a runny nose two days before being referred to our hospital due to persistent fever and poor oral intake.
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January 2025
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, Loma Linda Children's Hospital, Loma Linda, CA, USA.
We describe a case of novel use of trametinib in treating arrythmia without concomitant cardiomyopathy. Our patient is a two-year-old female born with Costello syndrome due to heterozygous mutations in the HRAS gene c34 G > T p (G12C). Shortly after birth, she was diagnosed with multifocal atrial tachyarrhythmia.
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January 2025
Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, Seattle Children's Hospital, 4800 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98105, USA.
Background: NSAIDs are commonly used as first line therapy in chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis (CNO) but are not effective for all patients. The objective of this study was to identify clinical variables associated with NSAID monotherapy response versus requiring second-line medication in a single-center cohort of patients with CNO.
Methods: The charts of children with CNO who attended a CNO clinic at a quaternary care center between 1/1/05 and 7/31/21 were retrospectively reviewed.
Rheumatol Int
January 2025
Department of Pediatric Rheumatology, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Chronic non-bacterial osteomyelitis (CNO) is an inflammatory bone disease, usually diagnosed in childhood. It is characterized by the presence of multifocal or unifocal osteolytic lesions that can cause bone pain and soft tissue swelling. CNO is known to have soft tissue involvement.
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