Acute pulmonary oedema usually has a fatal outcome. In this clinical report, we present rare cases of pulmonary oedema that were associated with Japanese B encephalitis, lymphangitis in breast carcinoma, fat embolism due to long-bone fracture, and the rupture of cerebral mycotic aneurysms. A total of 18 patients in the four disease categories were collected in two teaching hospitals in Taipei a...

The adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is almost invariably accompanied by permeability pulmonary oedema, usually appearing in the first few hours [1, 2]. The extent and therefore the seriousness of this oedema is proportional to the filtration of fluid and proteins through the pulmonary vascular endothelium. The extreme sensitivity of this filtration to variations of capillary pressure...

Introduction: Malignant gliomas are currently evaluated by subjective assessment of T2and contrast-enhanced T1-weighted imaging. Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is largely considered a single clinical entity for the purposes of treatment rationalisation, although genetic biomarkers which predict response to treatment in glioma from biopsy samples have been discovered. Non-invasive imaging biomark...

In this study, we examined injury progression after intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) induced by collagenase in mice using a preclinical 11.7 Tesla MRI system. On T2-weighted MRI, lesion and striatal volumes were increased on day 3 and then decreased from days 7 to 28. On day 3, with an increase in striatal water content, vasogenic oedema in the perihaematomal region presented as increased T2 and...

INTRODUCTION Small vessel disease (SVD) of the brain is a leading cause of age- and hypertension-related cognitive decline and disability. Cerebral white matter changes are a consistent manifestation of SVD on neuroimaging, progressing silently for many years before becoming clinically evident. The pathogenesis of these changes remains poorly understood, despite their importance. In particular,...

We have used the noninvasive method of 31phosphorus nuclear magnetic resonance (31P NMR) in vivo to follow changes in phosphorous metabolite concentrations and the intracellular pH in the right and left hemispheres and in the cerebellum of gerbil brains after the occlusion of the right carotid artery. Spatial resolution over the brain was possible using surface coils. Ligation, which is know to...