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Low tube voltage and deep-learning reconstruction for reducing radiation and contrast medium doses in thin-slice abdominal CT: a prospective clinical trial.
Eur Radiol
November 2024
Department of Surgery, Yamaga Medical Center, 511 Yamaga, Kumamoto, 861-0501, Japan.
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to assess a new CT imaging protocol that uses low radiation and iodinated contrast medium doses while maintaining image quality through deep-learning reconstruction (DLR).
- It involved 148 patients, comparing two different voltage protocols (120-kVp and 80-kVp) in relation to the radiation dose, iodine dose, image noise, and overall image quality.
- Results showed that the 80-kVp protocol with DLR provided better image quality and significantly lower radiation and iodine doses compared to the higher voltage protocol.
Major postoperative complications are associated with early recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma following hepatectomy.
Langenbecks Arch Surg
September 2022
Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan.
Background And Aim: Early recurrence (ER) is a strong predictor of poor prognosis in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after hepatectomy. The aim of this study was to examine manageable factors associated with ER.
Methods: Overall, 475 consecutive patients with primary HCC who underwent curative hepatectomy were included (R0/R1).
Incidence, clinical characteristics, and diagnostic approach in transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy: The Kumamoto Cardiac Amyloidosis Survey.
J Cardiol
July 2022
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan.
Background: In recent years, transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) has received increasing attention; however, the epidemiology of ATTR-CM in Japan is not yet understood. In the Kumamoto Cardiac Amyloid Survey, we evaluated the current incidence, clinical characteristics, diagnostic approaches, and treatment strategies for ATTR-CM and compared tafamidis-prescription hospitals with regional hospitals.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective multicenter observational cohort study.
Apical flow and wall motion dynamics in left ventricular outflow obstruction: a case report.
J Echocardiogr
September 2022
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, 1-1-1 Honjo, Kumamoto, 860-8556, Japan.
Olmesartan reverses not only vascular endothelial dysfunction but cardiac diastolic dysfunction in hypertensive patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction - ORION study.
Int J Cardiol Heart Vasc
September 2015
Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan.