OBJECTIVE The objective of our study was to evaluate the effect of organ-based tube current modulation and bismuth shielding on image quality and breast radiation dose in women undergoing low-dose chest CT. SUBJECTS AND METHODS From March 2011 through July 2011, 80 women prospectively underwent low-dose chest CT to screen for lung cancer. The patients were randomly assigned to a control group...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES High-dose melphalan with autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (ASCT) is an effective treatment for systemic primary amyloidosis. This procedure is, however, associated with substantial toxicity and mortality, particularly if the heart is involved. Refined selection of patients suitable for transplantation and personalized adaptation of the doses of mel...

some lesions in the oral cavity and mostly on gingiva have predominant predilection towards females, and mostly occur in the first four decades of life when changes in sex hormone levels in blood are obvious. the present study aimed to investigate the presence and distribution of estrogen and progesterone receptors in peripheral giant cell granuloma (pgcg), pyogenic granuloma (pg) and periphera...

Sirolimus is an immunosuppressant commonly used in solid organ transplantation as an alternative to corticosteroids or calcineurin inhibitors. Common side effects include hyperlipidemia, arthralgias, and noncardiac peripheral edema. Pulmonary toxicity is increasingly recognized after solid organ transplants [1-3]. Here we report the first case of sirolimus-associated pneumonitis (SAP) in a peri...

Cyclosporine A (CsA) is a powerful immunosuppressive drug which significantly improved the success of organ transplantation; however, the major limiting factors for the drug's clinical use are its long and short term adverse effects. The present study was conducted to examine, in a dose-dependent manner, in a model of cardiogenesis, the effect of CsA on cardiomyocytes differentiation.

Abstract. The goal of this project is to determine the absorbed dose of radiation to a patient using 99mTc-MAA as a tracer for a lung scan using the MIRD formula accounting only for the radiation dose contributed by the target organ. The radiation dose for other organs to the target organ is considered negligible as the uptake of 99mTc-MAA from other organs is less than 1%. In addition to calcu...

Following acute arsenic ingestion, a 35 year old woman experienced multiple organ failure, including renal and respiratory insufficiency, toxic hepatitis, peripheral neuropathy, and encephalopathy. In addition, she developed an anemia; the bone marrow showed a striking dyserythropoiesis with megaloblastic features. Her recovery was heralded by normalization of the bone marrow morphology, follow...