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A significant (P<0.001) decrease in cutaneous StO

levels from 78.3% (SD 15.3) at baseline to 60.6% (SD 19.8) at the end of occlusion phase was observed, although StO

levels returned to baseline after five minutes. Mean cutaneous StO

values were similar in the same subjects on separate study days (Pearson R2 0.92 and 0.77, respectively) at both centers. Local vasodilation did not yield significant changes in cutaneous StO

values.

This pilot study demonstrated the feasibility of a snapshot hyperspectral camera for detecting quantitative physiological changes in cutaneous StO

in normal human volunteers, and serves as a precursor for further validation in perioperative studies.

This pilot study demonstrated the feasibility of a snapshot hyperspectral camera for detecting quantitative physiological changes in cutaneous StO2 in normal human volunteers, and serves as a precursor for further validation in perioperative studies.

For patients with previously diagnosed dual primary tumors, it is usually difficult to determine the diagnosis and treatment of stage IV recurrence. The study was to explore the influences of

F-fluoroestradiol positron emission tomography/computed tomography (

F-FES PET/CT) in the diagnosis of estrogen receptor (ER) positive breast cancer combined with other primary tumor with distant metastases.

Multidisciplinary team were organized to explore the definite clinical value of

F-FES PET/CT in stage IV patients suffered from ER-positive breast cancer and another primary tumor synchronously or metachronously. Thirty-two female patients were retrospectively analyzed who underwent

F-FES PET/CT scans in our center. BTK inhibitor Before and after reading

F-FES reports, the team members from department of surgery, oncology and radiotherapy should make decisions of management strategy.

Totally, the multidisciplinary team completed the management decision-making of the 32 patients before and after

F-FES PET/CT scans. 87.5% (n=28) of the patients were considered to benefit from

F-FES reports for diagnosis and treatment decisions. Out of the 28 patients, 7 patients (7/32, 21.9%) were considered to definitely change the management strategies while 12 patients (12/32, 37.5%) was instructive to develop management plans after the scan. The other 9 patients were suggested reassuring decision-making process by

F-FES PET/CT.

F-FES PET/CT scans have clinical effects on diagnosis and treatment strategies of stage IV patients suffered from ER-positive breast cancer and another primary tumor.

18F-FES PET/CT scans have clinical effects on diagnosis and treatment strategies of stage IV patients suffered from ER-positive breast cancer and another primary tumor.

This retrospective study quantifies target vessel displacement during fenestrated and branched endovascular aneurysm repair due to the introduction of stiff guidewires and stent graft delivery systems. The effect that intraoperative vessel displacement has on the usability of computed tomography angiography (CTA) roadmaps is also addressed.

Patients that underwent fenestrated or branched EVAR were included in this retrospective study. Two imaging datasets were collected from each patient (I) preoperative CTA and (II) intraoperative contrast-enhanced cone beam computed tomography (ceCBCT) acquired after the insertion of the stiff guidewire and stent graft delivery system. After image registration, the 3D coordinates of the ostium of the celiac artery, superior mesenteric artery, right renal artery and left renal artery were recorded in both the CTA and the ceCBCT dataset by two observers. The three-dimensional displacement of the ostia of the target vessels was calculated by subtracting the coordinates of rated or branched EVAR causes significant, non-uniform displacement of the ostium of the visceral and renal target vessels. Consequently, preoperative CTA roadmaps based on bone registration are suboptimal to guide target vessel catheterization during these procedures.

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have the potential to automatically delineate primary nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), but currently, the literature lacks a module to introduce valuable pre-computed features into a CNN. In addition, most CNNs for primary NPC delineation have focused on contrast-enhanced MRI. To enable the use of CNNs in clinical applications where it would be desirable to avoid contrast agents, such as cancer screening or intra-treatment monitoring, we aim to develop a CNN algorithm with a positional-textural fully-connected attention (FCA) module that can automatically delineate primary NPCs on contrast-free MRI.

This retrospective study was performed in 404 patients with NPC who had undergone staging MRI. A proposed CNN algorithm incorporated with our positional-textural FCA module (

) was trained on manually delineated tumours (

) to automatically delineate primary NPCs on non-contrast-enhanced T2-weighted fat-suppressed (NE-T2W-FS) images. Tnhanced MRI.

The 4-dimensional automated left atrial quantification (4D Auto LAQ) tool is a new software for analysis of the structure and function of the left atrium (LA). This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between LA strain (LAS) as measured by 4D Auto LAQ echocardiography and thromboembolism risk in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF).

Eight-five patients with NVAF were recruited from the cardiovascular center of our hospital, including 39 patients at high risk and 46 patients at low risk of thromboembolism. The study participants were assessed by routine echocardiography; 4D images were obtained, after which 4D Auto LAQ assessment was performed.

In the thromboembolism high-risk group, the rates of impaired LA reservoir strain, LA contraction strain, LA reservoir circumferential strain, LA conduit circumferential strain, and LA contraction circumferential strain were found to be significantly higher than in the low-risk group. However, there was no significant difference in volume at for thromboembolism, and LA contraction circumferential strain >-4.5% is a valuable cut-off to guide the use of anticoagulant therapy in patients with non-valvular AF.

-4.5% is a valuable cut-off to guide the use of anticoagulant therapy in patients with non-valvular AF.

Iron accumulates in brain tissue in healthy subjects during aging. Our goal was to conduct a detailed analysis of iron deposition patterns in the cerebral deep grey matter and cortex using region-based and whole-brain analyses of brain magnetic susceptibility.

Brain MRI was performed in 95 healthy individuals aged between 21 and 58 years on a 3T scanner. MRI protocol included T1-weighted (T1W) magnetization-prepared rapid acquisition with gradient echo images and 3D flow-compensated multi-echo gradient-echo images for quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM). In the region-based analysis, QSM and T1W images entered an automated multi-atlas segmentation pipeline and regional mean bulk susceptibility values were calculated. The whole-brain analysis included a non-linear transformation of QSM images to the standard MNI template. For the whole-brain analysis voxel-wise maps of linear regression slopes β and P values were calculated. Regional masks of cortical voxels with a significant association between susn trajectories during aging may be helpful in the detection of subtle neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory processes.

Risk factors associated with primary THA readmissions have not yet been thoroughly analyzed when stratified by underlying indication. Given that a majority of THAs are done electively in the context of osteoarthritis (OA), it remains to be explored whether or not THAs performed non-electively in the trauma setting have different readmission patterns. Therefore, the aims of this study were to identify 1) causes of readmissions; 2) patient-related risk-factors for readmissions; and 3) costs associated with the reasons for readmissions.

Patients who sustained a femoral neck fracture and underwent primary THA from 2005 to 2014 were identified. Those subsequently readmitted within 90-days following the procedure comprised the study cohort whereas those not readmitted served as the comparison cohort. Primary outcomes included identifying causes of readmissions, identifying patient-related risk-factors associated with readmissions and determining healthcare expenditures associated with the different readmission etiologies. A regression analysis was used to calculate the odds (OR) for readmissions. A

value less than 0.01 was considered to be statistically significant.

The regression model demonstrated the greatest patient-related risk factors included electrolyte and fluid disorders (OR 1.80,

0.0001), morbid obesity (OR 1.60,

0.0001), pathologic weight loss (OR 1.58,

0.0001), congestive heart failure (OR 1.41,

0.0001), were the leading risk factors for readmissions. Pulmonary-related causes ($42,357.71) of readmission were the leading driver of costs of care.

Orthopaedic surgeons should identify and optimize pre-operative management of patient-related risk factors that increase readmissions following primary THA for femoral neck fractures. Additionally, pulmonary-related causes of readmission lead to the highest costs of care.

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III.The prevalence of food insecurity is much higher in East Africa than in other parts of the world. Climate change and associated variability are important contributors to food insecurity in the region. Using primary data collected in 2018/19 from Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania, this study examines the links between the prevalence of household food insecurity (the access to food dimension) and vulnerability to climate change in East Africa. The Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) was constructed to measure the prevalence of household food insecurity, and an ordered probit econometrics model was used to investigate the factors affecting the prevalence rates. The aggregate results show that 52% of the total sampled households in the region were food-secure; 15% and 26% were mildly food-secure and moderately food-insecure, respectively; and the remaining 7% were severely food-insecure. The ordered probit results suggest that exposure to climate change extremes and crop losses caused by these extremes significantly contribute to the prevalence of food insecurity across countries in East Africa. The results also indicate that households' adaptive capacity plays a significant role in reducing the prevalence of food insecurity. The demographic/human, social, financial, physical, and natural assets/capital of the household also play a significant role in reducing household-level food insecurity in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania.Besides transformed cells, the tumors are composed of various cell types that contribute to undesirable tumor progression. Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are the most abundant innate immune cells in the tumor microenvironment (TME). Within the TME, TAMs exhibit high plasticity and undergo specific functional metabolic alterations according to the availability of tumor tissue oxygen and nutrients, thus further contributing to tumorigenesis and cancer progression. Here, we review the main functional TAM metabolic patterns influenced by TME, including glycolysis, amino acid, and fatty acid metabolism. Moreover, this review discusses antitumor immunotherapies that affect TAM functionality by inducing cell repolarizing and metabolic profiles towards an antitumoral phenotype. Also, new macrophage-based cell therapeutic technologies recently developed using chimeric antigen receptor bioengineering are exposed, which may overcome all solid tumor physical barriers impeding the current adoptive cell therapies and contribute to developing novel cancer immunotherapies.