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Reliability of liver stiffness measurement in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: the effects of body mass index.

2011

Background Liver stiffness measurement (LSM) using transient elastography (TE) is used to stage fibrosis in patients with liver disease, diagnostic reliability and the factors affecting its performance in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are incompletely understood. Aim To assess LSM. Methods Consecutive NAFLD patients (n = 169), assessed by liver biopsy (Kleiner score), anthropometrical, biochemical and metabolic features, underwent LSM using TE with standard M probe. Results Liver stiffness measurement was not reliable in 23 patients (14%) due to obesity. Among patients with a reliable TE, a LSM value >7.25 kPa was the best cut-off for predicting significant fibrosi…

THE ROLE OF TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY IN NAFLD

2021

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A simple, noninvasive test for the diagnosis of liver fibrosis in patients with hepatitis C recurrence after liver transplantation.

2010

Recurrent hepatitis C is a common cause of graft loss in patients undergoing liver transplantation, and serial protocol liver biopsies have been used to identify patients at risk of graft loss from rapid fibrosis progression. The aim of this study was to derive a simple noninvasive index to predict fibrosis in patients with recurrent hepatitis C post-transplant. A retrospective study was performed assessing serial liver biopsies for post-transplant chronic hepatitis C infection. One hundred eighty-five patients were included in the analysis; median age 53 years (interquartile range 48-59) and 140 (76%) were male. Liver histology showed 53 (29%) had Ishak fibrosis stages F0/F1, 31 (17%) had …

Pensiero e autocoscienza. Lo strano anello della cognizione umana.

L’argomento centrale della tesi è la natura della mente umana in relazione alla questione dell’intricato rapporto fra pensiero e autocoscienza. La congettura fondamentale consiste, in primo luogo, nel sostenere che particolari proprietà del pensiero umano, la flessibilità e la fluidità, rappresentino le caratteristiche salienti e specifiche della cognizione umana e, in secondo luogo, nel rilevare che il costituirsi di queste ultime sia strettamente connesso al fenomeno di autocoscienza. Il fuoco dell’analisi ruota attorno a tre importanti nuclei tematici: cosa si intende per flessibilità e fluidità della mente? Cosa si intende per autocoscienza – o meglio – quale tipo di autocoscienza esatt…

Imaging approach for evaluation of focal liver lesions

2009

Focal liver lesions are common in the general population. Radiology (imaging) plays a pivotal role for the diagnosis, staging, treatment planning, and follow-up of focal liver lesions. To maximize lesion detection and characterization, imaging needs to be performed with appropriate equipment by using protocols carefully designed on the basis of the underlying clinical context. In addition, the decision of an imaging modality cannot be based on the diagnostic accuracy of an imaging test solely but must also consider patient safety and cost-effectiveness.

Characterization of focal liver lesions: contrast-enhanced US versus MDCT and MR

2008

TRANS-FUSIMO: preliminary in-vivo animal results of MR-guided focused ultrasound of liver under respiratory motion

2019

Purpose: Treating liver tumors using Focused Ultrasound (FUS) is a great challenge. Prior to human applications, an in-vivo animal trial using the TRANS-FUSIMO treatment system (TTS) is ongoing in order to evaluate the safety and the technical efficacy and efficiency of generating predefined necrotic lesions. Methods and Materials: The trial includes a crossbred porcine model of thirty large white swine (all females; 55-85Kg) that will be treated using the TTS under general anaesthesia with intubation. All treatments haven been performed under ventilator-controlled breathing and using an improved non-clinical prototype FUS transducer integrated with a 1,5T MRI unit; a set of interventional …

Referee Bias in Professional Football: Favoritism Toward Successful Teams in Potential Penalty Situations

2020

Past studies have indicated that multiple factors may influence sport referees' decisions, such as pressure from spectators and athletes' reputation. Grounded in the social impact theory framework, this study examined whether Norwegian Premier League (NPL) referees are biased by a team's success when awarding penalties. Using video footage (similar to video assistant referees), an expert panel (EP) of four NPL referees evaluated all potential penalty situations (N = 43) involving either of two successful teams during an entire NPL season. Fifty-five potential penalty situations from matches without successful teams were also rated. Overall, the match referees identified 73.3% (22 of 30) of …

Physical disability in community-dwelling older people after hip fracture : randomized controlled trials with physical rehabilitation

2013

Regression of benign hepatic lesions associated with exogenous estrogens withdrawal

2014

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