Accuracy and precision of zero-heat-flux temperature measurements with the 3M™ Bair Hugger™ Temperature Monitoring System: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Zero-heat-flux thermometers provide clinicians with the ability to continuously and non-invasively monitor body temperature. These devices are increasingly being used to substitute for more invasive core temperature measurements during surgery and in critical care. The aim of this review was to determine the accuracy and precision of zero-heat-flux temperature measurements from the 3M™ Bair Hugger™ Temperature Monitoring System.

Patient Knowledge, Beliefs and Barriers to Hepatitis B Care: Results of a Multicenter, Multiethnic Patient Survey.

Background: A greater understanding of the determinants of health behavior among those with and at-risk of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is needed for effective design and implementation of public health initiatives.

Aims: To determine factors associated with (1) willingness to accept HBV antiviral treatment and (2) satisfaction with provider communication regarding HBV care in a diverse cohort of HBV-infected patients.

Methods: Using a multifaceted model of health behavior, the Health Behavior Framework, we conducted a comprehensive assessment of knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and barriers to HBV care.

Effects of ertugliflozin on renal function over 104 weeks of treatment: a post hoc analysis of two randomised controlled trials.

Aims/hypothesis: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of ertugliflozin, a sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor, on eGFR and albuminuria (urine albumin/creatinine ratio [UACR]) vs glimepiride or placebo/glimepiride (non-ertugliflozin) over 104 weeks of treatment in participants with type 2 diabetes mellitus, using pooled data from two randomised controlled, active comparator studies from the eValuation of ERTugliflozin effIcacy and Safety (VERTIS) programme (Clinicaltrials.gov NCT01999218 [VERTIS SU] and NCT02033889 [VERTIS MET]). In the VERTIS SU study, ertugliflozin was evaluated vs glimepiride over 104 weeks.

Characterization of Indeterminate Liver Lesions on CT and MRI With Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound: What Is the Evidence?

CT or MRI is most commonly used for characterizing focal hepatic lesions. However, findings on CT and MRI are occasionally indeterminate. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS), with its unique characteristics as a purely intravascular contrast agent and real-time evaluation of enhancement, is a useful next step.

Risk stratification in primary sclerosing cholangitis: comparison of biliary stricture severity on MRCP versus liver stiffness by MR elastography and vibration-controlled transient elastography.

Objectives: To compare biliary stricture severity on magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP), magnetic resonance elastography (MRE), and vibration-controlled transient elastography (VCTE) liver stiffness (LS) for evaluation of risk stratification and prognostication in primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC).

Materials And Methods: Eighty-seven patients (31-61 years; 34 female/53 male) prospectively underwent biochemical testing, VCTE, MRCP, and MRE between January 2014 and July 2016. Correlation between the MRCP grading of PSC based on biliary stricture severity, LS on MRE and VCTE, and the Mayo Risk Score as well as the Amsterdam Oxford Prognostic Index (AOPI) were evaluated and compared.

The role of 22q11.2 deletion syndrome in the relationship between congenital heart disease and scoliosis.

Background Context: For over four decades, clinicians and researchers have suggested a relationship between congenital heart disease (CHD) and scoliosis, attributed to either the disease itself or to the long-term effects of cardiac surgery on the immature thoracic cage. However, no study has yet accounted for 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.

Correction to: Correlation of 3T multiparametric prostate MRI using prostate imaging reporting and data system (PIRADS) version 2 with biopsy as reference standard.

Unfortunately the article was published with a spell error in the co-author name "Hassan Maan". The correct co-author name should be "Hassaan Maan".

A novel non-invasive method to detect excessively high respiratory effort and dynamic transpulmonary driving pressure during mechanical ventilation.

Background: Excessive respiratory muscle effort during mechanical ventilation may cause patient self-inflicted lung injury and load-induced diaphragm myotrauma, but there are no non-invasive methods to reliably detect elevated transpulmonary driving pressure and elevated respiratory muscle effort during assisted ventilation. We hypothesized that the swing in airway pressure generated by respiratory muscle effort under assisted ventilation when the airway is briefly occluded (ΔP) could be used as a highly feasible non-invasive technique to screen for these conditions.

Methods: Respiratory muscle pressure (P), dynamic transpulmonary driving pressure (ΔP, the difference between peak and end-expiratory transpulmonary pressure), and ΔP were measured daily in mechanically ventilated patients in two ICUs in Toronto, Canada.

Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Late Gadolinium Enhancement at Cardiac MRI Are Associated with Adverse Cardiac Events in Fabry Disease.

Background Cardiac involvement is the leading cause of mortality in patients with Fabry disease. Identification of imaging findings that predict adverse cardiac events is needed to enable identification of high-risk patients. Purpose To establish the prognostic value of cardiac MRI findings in men and women with Fabry disease.

Determinants of the effect of extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal in the SUPERNOVA trial: implications for trial design.

Purpose: To describe the variability and determinants of the effect of extracorporeal CO removal (ECCOR) on tidal volume (V), driving pressure (ΔP), and mechanical power (Power) and to determine whether highly responsive patients can be identified for the purpose of predictive enrichment in ECCOR trial design.

Methods: Using data from the SUPERNOVA trial (95 patients with early moderate acute respiratory distress syndrome), the independent effects of alveolar dead space fraction (ADF), respiratory system compliance (Crs), hypoxemia (PaO/FiO), and device performance (higher vs lower CO extraction) on the magnitude of reduction in V, ΔP, and Power permitted by ECCOR were assessed by linear regression. Predicted and observed changes in ΔP were compared by Bland-Altman analysis.

Loss of base-to-apex circumferential strain gradient assessed by cardiovascular magnetic resonance in Fabry disease: relationship to T1 mapping, late gadolinium enhancement and hypertrophy.

Background: Cardiac involvement is common and is the leading cause of mortality in Fabry disease (FD). We explored the association between cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) myocardial strain, T1 mapping, late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) and left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in patients with FD.

Methods: In this prospective study, 38 FD patients (45.

Investigating the Smoking Cessation Informational Needs of Cancer Patients and Informal Caregivers.

Continued smoking at the time of a cancer diagnosis can severely impact the efficacy of cancer patient treatment and survival. The time of diagnosis can serve as a "teachable moment" for smoking cessation education, since patients may be receptive to discussions about quitting. Caregivers may have a pivotal role in supporting patients with their cessation efforts.

Predicting Underlying Neoplasms in Appendiceal Mucoceles at CT: Focal Versus Diffuse Luminal Dilatation.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether a novel morphologic characteristic of appendiceal mucoceles at CT-focal distal appendiceal dilatation with a segment of morphologically normal appendix proximally-could predict an underlying neoplastic pathologic abnormality before surgery and histopathologic assessment. A retrospective study was performed that assessed CT cases from 2012 through 2014. Cases showing morphologic features of a mucocele were identified and categorized into two subgroups: focal distal dilatation with a segment of normal appendix proximally and generalized appendiceal dilatation.

CT-guided Microcoil Pulmonary Nodule Localization prior to Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery: Diagnostic Utility and Recurrence-Free Survival.

Background CT-guided microcoil localization has been shown to reduce the need for thoracotomy or video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) anatomic resection. However, only short-term follow-up after CT-guided microcoil localization and lung resection has been previously reported. Purpose To assess the diagnostic utility and recurrence-free survival over a minimum of 2 years following CT-guided microcoil localization and VATS.

Mineralocorticoid Antagonism and Diabetic Kidney Disease.

Purpose Of Review: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is associated with an increased risk of diabetic kidney disease (DKD), cardiovascular disease, and heart failure, in part through activation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS). Although recent cardiovascular outcome trials have identified newer therapeutic agents such as sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1)-receptor agonists that reduce the risk of these complications, patients still exhibit residual cardiorenal morbidity and mortality. Accordingly, the identification of pharmacological agents that attenuate micro- and macrovascular complications related to T2D is a major priority.

Correction to: Minimally Invasive Treatment for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Economic Evaluation from a Standardized Hospital Case Costing System.

The original version of this article published previously contained an error.

Minimally Invasive Treatment for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Economic Evaluation from a Standardized Hospital Case Costing System.

Purpose: Minimally invasive alternatives to transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) such as prostate arterial embolization (PAE) and photoselective vaporization of the prostate (PVP) are being explored as adjuncts in the care of patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia. However, there are conflicting reports of the costs of these procedures. The purpose of this study was to compare the direct and indirect hospital costs of TURP, PAE and PVP.

Usefulness of slice encoding for metal artifact correction (SEMAC) technique for reducing metal artifacts after total knee arthroplasty.

Purpose: To evaluate the usefulness of a novel MRI sequence strategy in the assessment of the periprosthetic anatomical structures after primary total knee arthroplasty.

Methods: Two MR sequences were retrospectively compared for the imaging of 15 patients with implanted cruciate-retaining/fixed-bearing TKAs (DePuy, PFC Sigma): a slice encoding sequence for metal artifact correction (SEMAC) and a standard sequence. Images were acquired on a 1.

Diagnostic Accuracy of Sex-Specific Chest CT Measurements Compared With Cardiac MRI Findings in the Assessment of Cardiac Chamber Enlargement.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to establish sex-specific chest CT measurement thresholds for detection of cardiac chamber enlargement with cardiac MRI as the reference standard.

Materials And Methods: Consecutive patients who underwent contrast-enhanced chest CT (64- or 320-MDCT) and cardiac MRI within a 7-day interval between August 2006 and August 2016 were included in this retrospective study (n = 217; 115 men, 102 women; mean age, 52.8 ± 15.

Successful Integration of Contrast-enhanced US into Routine Abdominal Imaging.

Contrast material-enhanced US is recognized increasingly as a useful tool in a wide variety of hepatic and nonhepatic applications. The modality recently was approved for limited use for liver indications in adult and pediatric patients in the United States. Contrast-enhanced US uses microbubbles of gas injected intravenously as a contrast agent to demonstrate blood flow and tissue perfusion.

Correlation of 3T multiparametric prostate MRI using prostate imaging reporting and data system (PIRADS) version 2 with biopsy as reference standard.

Objective: To correlate the findings on 3T multiparametric prostate MRI using PIRADS version 2 with prostate biopsy results as the standard of reference.

Materials And Methods: 134 consecutive treatment naive patients (mean age 64 years, range 41-82 years) underwent MRI-directed prostate biopsy. MRI-TRUS fusion biopsy was used for 77 (77/134 = 57.

Sequential broncho-alveolar lavages reflect distinct pulmonary compartments: clinical and research implications in lung transplantation.

Background: Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) has proven to be very useful to monitor the lung allograft after transplantation. In addition to allowing detection of infections, multiple BAL analytes have been proposed as potential biomarkers of lung allograft rejection or dysfunction. However, BAL collection is not well standardized and differences in BAL collection represent an important source of variation.