PURPOSE To determine whether fast spin-echo sequences could replace conventional spin-echo methods in the evaluation of head and neck neoplasms and associated adenopathy and to evaluate differences in tissue contrast characteristics between conventional spin-echo and fast spin-echo examinations of head and neck disease. METHODS Twenty-seven patients with squamous cell carcinoma were imaged on...

This study was designed to determine the role of visceral adipose tissue (VAT) accumulation in systemic fat metabolism and to compare this in black and white women who differ in their manifestations of upper body obesity. Systemic glycerol and free fatty acid (FFA) turnover rates (rates of appearance, Ra) were measured in the basal state and during a pancreatic euglycemic clamp in nondiabetic, ...

Myasthenia gravis (MG) is an autoimmune neuromuscular disease leading to fluctuating muscle weakness. Approximately 70% of patients with MG have thymic hyperplasia, and 10–20% of them have thymoma. In MG patients without thymoma, thymectomy should be performed only in selected patients. In contrast, thymectomy should be performed in all patients with thymoma. In addition, thoracoscopic thymecto...

Dietary polyunsaturated fat is known to suppress expression of fatty acid synthase (FAS), a central enzyme in de novo lipogenesis. The sterol regulatory element-binding protein (SREBP) has recently been shown to be involved in this suppression. We previously reported that the first 2.1 kb of the FAS promoter are sufficient for transcriptional induction by a high carbohydrate diet as well as sup...

In MRI, the suppression of fat signal is very important for many applications. Multipoint Dixon based water-fat separation methods are commonly used due to its robustness to B(0) homogeneity compared with other fat suppression methods, such as spectral fat saturation. The traditional Cartesian k-space trajectory based multipoint Dixon technique is sensitive to motion, such as pulsatile blood fl...

In recent years, there has been renewed interest in hematological parameters as predictors of endothelial dysfunction and inflammation. The aim of our study is to evaluate the relationship between HbA1c and hematological indices, and to evaluate the relationship between these parameters and microvascular complications of diabetes. Three hundred and seven diabetic patients (124 male, 183 female;...

AIM To evaluate platelet function in patients with a history of surgical treatment for hepatic hydatid disease (HD). METHODS This retrospective case-controlled study was performed in a state hospital in Turkey from January 2009 to November 2013. The patients were divided into two groups: those evaluated in the preoperative period (Group 1) and those evaluated in the postoperative period (Grou...

Background Edema-sensitive T2-weighted cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) based on fast spin-echo (FSE) imaging is a useful modality to detect acute myocardial injury. Conventional T2-weighted CMR uses three inversion-recovery (IR) pulses, the first two to null the blood signal, and the last one (STIR) to null fat signal, but suffers from reduced myocardial signal and signal dropout. We compared ...

The pseudogap regime of the underdoped cuprates arguably remains one most enigmatic phenomena correlated quantum matter. Recent theoretical ideas suggest that a pair density wave (PDW) or ``fractionalized PDW'' could be key ingredient for understanding physics. These are to contrasted scenario where charge order and superconductivity coexist at low temperatures. In this paper, we present few te...