The aim of this study was to correlate carotid black blood MRI based measurements with those obtained by ultrasound intima-media thickness (IMT). Seventeen patients with intermediate to high Framingham cardiovascular risk score underwent both carotid ultrasound and rapid extended coverage double inversion recovery black blood carotid MRI. Overall, there was good correlation between wall area, w...

INTRODUCTION There are multiple causes for ascites and conventional diagnostic method for most of them is paracentesis. This method is invasive and time consuming. The aim of this study is to survey the reliability of measuring gallbladder wall thickness to discriminate between cirrhotic and malignant ascites. MATERIALS AND METHODS In our study we measured the gallbladder wall thickness by ul...

background: more diagnostic techniques require a better understanding of the forces and stresses developed in the wall of the left ventricle. the aim of this study was to differentiate significant coronary artery disease (cad) patients using a non-invasive quantification of myocardial wall stress in the diastole phase. methods: sixty male subjects with sinus rhythm (30 patients with significant...

We present a model for unicellular algal growth as motivated by several experiments implicating the importance of calcium ions and “loosening” enzymes in morphogenesis. A growing cell at rest in a diffusive calcium solution is viewed as an elastic shell on short timescales. For a given turgor pressure, we calculate the stressed shapes of the wall elements whose elastic properties are determined...

BACKGROUND To study CT and MR findings in xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis (XGC). MATERIAL/METHODS Retrospective analysis of 30 histopathologically confirmed cases of XGC. Seventeen patients underwent CECT and 13 underwent MRI. The following features were studied - wall thickness, intramural nodules, pericholecystic stranding, wall thickness, THAD, fat in gallbladder wall, cholelithiasis, in...

BACKGROUND Magnetic resonance colonography (MRC) has been recently developed to assess bowel inflammation in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients. Evaluating animal models of inflammation with MRC may be important in new drug-screening processes. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of MRC in colitic rats and confront it with model characteristics. METHODS Colitis was indu...

We calculate the velocity and thickness of a bubble wall at the electroweak phase transition in the Minimal Standard Model. We model the wall with semiclassical equations of motion and show that friction arises from the deviation of massive particle populations from thermal equilibrium. We treat these with Boltzmann equations in a fluid approximation in the background of the wall. Our analysis ...

Introduction Hypertension puts continuous strain on arteries, resulting in arterial wall alterations such as vessel wall thickening and vessel wall stiffening. Due to the availability of suitable acoustic windows, vessel wall thickness (VWT) is studied traditionally by ultrasound from intima-media thickness in the carotid arteries. Arterial vessel wall stiffness can be expressed by Pulse Wave V...

OBJECTIVES We evaluated whether two-dimensional high-resolution transthoracic echocardiography (HR-2DTTE) can detect changes in arterial wall thickness and size associated with subclinical coronary artery disease (CAD). BACKGROUND Arterial wall thickening, compensatory arterial enlargement and a preserved arterial lumen characterize subclinical atherosclerosis. Detection of these changes duri...

BACKGROUND An epidermoid cyst is a common epithelial-lined cyst. There have been many studies on epidermoid cysts, but few focused on ruptured epidermoid cyst and its histopathologic characteristics. OBJECTIVE We evaluated the histopathologic differences between ruptured and unruptured epidermoid cysts, and their relationships. METHODS We retrospectively examined 359 excision biopsy specime...