Comparison of the New Multiepitope Recombinant Peptide Antigen with Cyst Fluid Antigen in the Follow-up of Patients with Cystic Echinococcosis.

Objective: The follow-up of patients with cystic echinococcosis (CE) offers the opportunity of evaluating the prognosis of the infection as well as detecting relapse. This study aimed to evaluate the performance of the new multiepitope recombinant peptide (recDipol) antigen in the follow-up of CE patients treated by surgery or percutaneous aspiration injection respiration.

Methods: A total of 137 blood samples from 28 patients were evaluated by IgG-ELISA method using recDipol and hydatid fluid (HF) antigens.

[Imaging of articular cartilage].

There have been many improvements in joint cartilage imaging in recent years with the development of new imaging methods. The purpose of cartilage imaging is to assess the integrity of the cartilage surface, the thickness and volume of the cartilage matrix and its relationship with the subchondral bone. Direct radiography, the conventional imaging method for the skeletal system, is not sufficient for assessing the joint cartilage, nor are arthrography, computed tomography, and arthrography together with computed tomography.

[Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in evaluation of coronary artery disease].

Considerable advances have been achieved in cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology, and MRI has become an important noninvasive imaging tool in the management of coronary artery disease. Cardiac MRI can provide information about myocardial perfusion, viability and contractile reserve. The information obtained not only provides diagnostic information but also has an important prognostic value.

[Ganglion cysts of the knee originating from tendons and ligaments].

Purpose: To investigate the clinical features and MR imaging findings of the ganglion cysts arising from the tendons and ligaments of the knee.

Materials And Methods: One thousand six hundred and twenty knee MR examinations that had been performed in a three-year period were evaluated retrospectively for the presence of ganglion cysts originating from tendons or ligaments. Clinical findings and MRI features of the lesions were noted.

[Doppler ultrasound diagnosis of lower extremity deep vein insufficiency: Valsalva maneuver or pneumatic cuff?].

Purpose: To compare the efficacy of Valsalva maneuver and pneumatic compression techniques in detecting lower extremity deep venous and saphenofemoral insufficiency.

Materials And Methods: Eighty-one extremities evaluated in 43 patients who had undergone Doppler ultrasound examination of the lower extremity venous system were included in the study. Valsalva maneuver and pneumatic cuff techniques were used to elicit reflux in the standing position.

[The role of the interventional radiologist in central venous catheter dysfunction (pictorial essay)].

Failure to aspirate blood from the lumen of venous catheters, inadequate blood flow and/or high resistance pressures during hemodialysis were accepted as catheter dysfunction. Other correctable problems such as residual lumen thrombus, external fibrin catheter sheath or malpositioned catheter tip were identified by contrast injection. Catheter malpositions were corrected by snare-mediated catheter repositioning or by exchange of the catheter over a guidewire.

[Stent originating pseudoaneurysm: endovascular treatment of a rare complication with hemobahn-covered stent (case report)].

Delayed rupture and aneurysm formation at the site of stent placement has rarely been described in the literature. However, these rare complications are usually fatal and the patients are taken to the operating theater for repeat endovascular treatment. In this case report, a rare complication that developed after percutaneous recanalization and stent angioplasty of chronic long-segment iliac artery occlusion, and the treatment of this complication are presented.

[Persistent fetal carotid-vertebrobasilar anastomoses].

The primitive trigeminal, otic (acoustic), hypoglossal, and proatiantal intersegmental arteries are persistent fetal anastomoses between the carotid and vertebrobasilar circulations. These fetal anastomoses regress at roughly the rate at which the posterior communicating and vertebral arteries develop. The purpose of this study is to review the persistent fetal carotid-vertebrobasilar anastomoses with MRI and DSA.

[Case report: MRI findings in gout].

MR imaging is not routinely used for the evaluation of tophaceous gout. However, gout may have atypical clinical and radiologic findings. It should be considered in the differential diagnosis when a mass reveals heterogeneous and low signal intensity on T2 weighted images.

[Case report: Cerebral superficial siderosis: MRI findings].

Superficial siderosis of the central nervous system is a rare condition characterized by deposition of hemosiderin in the leptomeninges, subpial tissue and spinal cord. Magnetic resonance imaging provides prompt diagnosis of this entity. Three cases of cerebral superficial siderosis are presented in this study.

Multiple intracranial aneurysms in polyarteritis nodosa: MRI and angiography.

In polyarteritis nodosa involvement of the central nervous system is infrequent; small cerebral infarcts are the most common neuroradiological finding. We report a 10-year-old boy with polyarteritis nodosa and intracranial haemorrhage. MRI showed an intracerebral haemorrhage.