n engl j med 367;10 nejm.org september 6, 2012 885 of disorders, some of which can be treated (e.g., severe depression or effects of medications) but others of which may signal the development of incurable dementias, such as Alzheimer’s disease. For these reasons, the development and improvement of diagnostic procedures — and neuroimaging procedures, in particular — that aid in characterizing c...

OBJECTIVE The current guidelines for 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-d-glucose PET/CT scanning do not address potential inaccuracies that may arise due to patients with renal failure. We report a retrospective analysis of standard uptake values (SUVs) in patients with and without renal failure in order to warrant a protocol adjustment. METHODS Patients were matched based on age, gender, and BMI all of ...

Cat-scratch disease is a bacterial infection caused by Bartonella Henselae which affects lymph nodes that drain the sites of inoculation. Axillary, cervical and inguinal are most common regions being involved. The can be considered as an FDG-avid disease, given granulomatous nature infection. We herein report F18 FDG PET/CT findings 49-year-old woman, who has abdominal lymphadenopathy revealed ...

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BACKGROUND AND AIMS The clinical onset and severity of intestinal disorders in humans and animals can be profoundly impacted by early life stress. Here we investigated the impact of early weaning stress in pigs on intestinal physiology, clinical disease, and immune response to subsequent challenge with enterotoxigenic F18 E. coli (ETEC). METHODOLOGY Pigs weaned from their dam at 16 d, 18 d, a...

abstract the study examines the growth effects of foreign direct investment on environmental quality in nigeria between 1970 and 2013. variables like per capita income, environmental degradation, foreign direct investment, human capital, inflation, trade openness, interest rate, and the interaction term between foreign direct investment and carbon emission were employed in the study. a long run...