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Predictors of Development of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients With Embolic Stroke Of Undetermined Source: An Analysis of the RE-SPECT ESUS Trial
Conclusions: Besides age as the most important variable, several other factors, including hypertension, higher body mass index, and lack of diabetes, are independent predictors of AF after ESUS. When baseline NT-proBNP was available, only older age and elevation of this biomarker were predictive of subsequent AF. Understanding who is at higher risk of developing AF will assist in identifying patients who may benefit from more intense, long-term cardiac monitoring.PMID:34649459 | DOI:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.055176
Source: Circulation - October 15, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Maria Cecilia Bahit Ralph L Sacco J Donald Easton Juliane Meyerhoff Lisa Cronin Eva Kleine Claudia Grauer Martina Brueckmann Hans-Christoph Diener Renato D Lopes Michael Brainin Philippe Lyrer Rolf Wachter Tomas Segura Christopher B Granger Source Type: research

Neurological Involvement in Primary Systemic Vasculitis
Conclusion Neurological involvement is a common complication of PSV (Table 1), and neurologists play an important role in the identification and diagnosis of PSV patients with otherwise unexplained neurological symptoms as their chief complaint. This article summarizes the neurological manifestations of PSV and hopes to improve neuroscientists' understanding of this broad range of diseases. TABLE 1 Table 1. Common CNS and PNS involvements of primary systemic vasculitis. Author Contributions SZ conceived the article and wrote the manuscript. DY and GT reviewed and edited the manuscript. All authors ...
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - April 25, 2019 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Hemichorea in a diabetes mellitus patient following acute ischemic stroke with changes in regional cerebral blood flow
Publication date: Available online 4 March 2015 Source:Journal of the Chinese Medical Association Author(s): Yutaka Suzuki , Minoru Oishi , Akira Kanno , Katsuhiko Ogawa , Mariko Fujisawa , Satoshi Kamei It is not unusual to observe hemichorea in patients with diabetes mellitus, with origins attributable to recent ischemia. Our patient was a 66-year-old female with diabetes mellitus who suddenly developed right hemichorea, mild muscle weakness of the right upper extremity, ideational apraxia, and acalculia. Her blood glucose was 600 mg/dL, and HbA1c was 13.3%. After the patient underwent head magnetic resonance imaging ...
Source: Journal of the Chinese Medical Association - March 4, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research

Accelerated atherosclerosis in ANCA ‐associated vasculitis
ConclusionsOur study adds weight to the presence of increased atherosclerosis in AAV‐patients. The association observed between CIMT and PI‐ICA with small vessel cerebral disease, points the possible association of easy to use carotid US in predicting microvascular brain injury.
Source: Acta Neurologica Scandinavica - June 13, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: I. Gonz ález‐Suárez, J. J. Ríos‐Blanco, J. Arpa Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Rates of Referral to Coronary Angiography After Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Myocardial Perfusion Imaging (MPI)
Conclusions: About 1 in 5 patients undergoing PET MPI are referred for coronary angiography within 90 days of testing, a rate greater than that reported for SPECT MPI, likely due to higher baseline risk of patients undergoing PET MPI testing. While referral rates for coronary angiography varied based on the presence or absence of prior documented clinical CAD and presence of test abnormalities, nearly 36% of patients with moderate-severe ischemia were not referred. Further work is needed to characterize why such patients are not referred for invasive evaluation to optimize the use of PET MPI in this high-risk population.
Source: Journal of Nuclear Medicine - May 23, 2018 Category: Nuclear Medicine Authors: Patel, K., Spertus, J., Kureshi, F., Al Badarin, F., McGhie, A., Kennedy, K., Courter, S., Case, J., Thompson, R., Chan, P., Bateman, T. Tags: Cardiovascular Clinical Science Poster Session Source Type: research

Light-Induced Pupillary Responses in Alzheimer's Disease
Light-Induced Pupillary Responses in Alzheimer's Disease Pratik S. Chougule1, Raymond P. Najjar1,2, Maxwell T. Finkelstein1, Nagaendran Kandiah3,4 and Dan Milea1,2,5* 1Department of Visual Neurosciences, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore 2The Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences ACP, Duke-National University of Singapore (NUS) Medical School, Singapore, Singapore 3Department of Neurology, National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore, Singapore 4Duke-National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, Singapore 5Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore The impact of Alzhe...
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - April 11, 2019 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Value of SPECT/CT over planar imaging during Tc-99m MDP triple phase bone scintigraphy for detection of osteomyelitis in patients with stage IV pressure ulcers
Conclusion: SPECT/CT imaging has a significant added diagnostic value over planar imaging in accurately detecting osseous involvement with stage IV pressure ulcers. It significantly reduced equivocal results by accurate uptake localization, reducing false positive results due to other associated pathologies and reducing false negative results due to overlap by other structures or difficult patient positioning.
Source: Journal of Nuclear Medicine - May 14, 2020 Category: Nuclear Medicine Authors: Nasr, H., Alfawzan, T., Alqarni, A., Farghaly, H. Tags: Infection/Pulmonary/Outcomes (Poster Session) Source Type: research