While commencement exercises for the class o! 1932 a r e being held, members of the Rice classes of 1922 and 1927 will meet in reunion at Ye Olde College inn. Both will open their sessions at 12:30 p. m. Monday. The class of 1922 will be celebrating the tenth anniversary of graduation f rom the Rice Institute, while the class of 1927 will commemorate the fifth a n niversary of the finishing of ...

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1188/04.CJON.76-78 Mrs. S is a 60-year-old widowed woman who arrives in the emergency department via ambulance after collapsing at home. Her sister states that Mrs. S has been complaining of nausea and vomiting, polyuria, thirst, and pain in her right leg for several days. Her sister also notes that Mrs. S is lethargic and has become increasingly confused. Mrs. S h...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Our aim was to confirm the clinical relationship between the Kurashiki Prehospital Stroke Scale (KPSS) scored by paramedics and favorable outcomes in patients with modified Rankin scale (mRS) scores of 0-1 assessed 3 months after symptom onset. METHODS We enrolled patients with acute stroke and transient ischemic attack showing symptoms on admission. Paramedics transfer...

Recently, both Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging (MRI) and Spectroscopy (MRS) have emerged as promising tools for detection of prostate cancer (CaP). However, due to the inherent dimensionality differences in MR imaging and spectral information, quantitative integration of T(2) weighted MRI (T(2)w MRI) and MRS for improved CaP detection has been a major challenge. In this paper, we present a nove...

BACKGROUND Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H MRS) allows measurement of alcohol in the human brain after alcohol consumption. However, the quantity of alcohol that can be detected in the brain by 1H MRS pulse sequences has been controversial, with values ranging from about 24% to 94% of the temporally concordant blood alcohol concentrations. The quantitation of brain alcohol is critica...

In the last 25 years, (13)C MRS has been established as the only noninvasive method for the measurement of glutamate neurotransmission and cell-specific neuroenergetics. Although technically and experimentally challenging, (13)C MRS has already provided important new information on the relationship between neuroenergetics and neuronal function, the energy cost of brain function, the high neuron...

OBJECTIVES To review the use of magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) as a clinical tool in the identification of cerebral neoplasia type and grade, as well as neoplasia in the prostate, colon, breast, cervix, pancreas, and esophagus. Also, to review how clinicians are using MRS for surgical planning and longitudinal evaluation of tumors after treatment. DATA SOURCES Studies and clinical case...

OBJECTIVES Vietnamese in Germany represent a scarcely researched and vulnerable group for mental health problems, especially under exposure to migration-related stressors (MRS). This study analyzes the effect of those MRS on the severity level and symptom pattern of depression. DESIGN We analyzed the data of 137 depressed Vietnamese patients utilizing Germany's first Vietnamese psychiatric ou...

OBJECTIVE C-reactive protein, a well known marker of inflammation is being investigated as a probable marker of predicting acute cardiovascular events and its severity. The aim of the present study was to assess the possible role of highly-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) in predicting short-term functional outcome of ischemic stroke. METHODOLOGY A prospective study was conducted on su...

We aimed to determine the metabolic profile and effects of chemotherapy on ovarian cancer cell metabolism in a three-dimensional (3D) vs. a two-dimensional (2D) construct using 31P-magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). Three ovarian cancer cell lines were embedded in a 3D perfused Matrigel construct or grown in a 2D monolayer. Metabolic differenc...