In this editorial we comment on the article by Kuwahara et al,published in the recent issue of the World Journal of Cardiology.In this interesting paper,the authors showed a correlation between portal vein pulsatility...
Acute variceal bleeding in patients with liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension(PHT) is the most serious emergency complication among those patients and could have catastrophic outcomes if not timely managed. Early s...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.31801117 to Dr.X.Li and 82073287 to Dr.Zhang);the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University in China(Grant No.IRT_14R40 to Dr.K.Chen);the Chinese National Key Research and Development Project(Grant No.2018YFC1315601).
Objective:Large volume radiological text data have been accumulated since the incorporation of electronic health record(EHR)systems in clinical practice.We aimed to determine whether deep natural language processing a...
BACKGROUND The Rex shunt was widely used as the preferred surgical approach for cavernous transformation of the portal vein(CTPV)in children that creates a bypass between the superior mesenteric vein and the intrahepa...
a grant from the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province(No.201602221)。
To the Editor:Many well-studied sonographic features have been used clinically to evaluate thyroid nodules for malignancies.Sonographic grayscale features proposed by the American College of Radiology Thyroid Imaging,...
Background: Measuring optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD), a relatively re-cent technique, allows an indirect and non-invasive diagnosis of intracranial hypertension. The ONSD ratio to eyeball transver...
The authors are grateful to Dr.de Assis AM,Interventional Radiologist,Interventional Radiology Department,Radiology Institute,University of Sao Paulo Medical School,for providing the SWE images and for sharing his valuable experience on USelastography of PAE.
Prostatic artery embolization(PAE)has gained acceptance as a minimally invasive,safe and effective treatment of symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia.Radiologic imaging is an indispensable part of post-intervention...
BACKGROUND Patients undergoing cardiac surgery particularly those with comorbidities and frailty,experience frequently higher rates of post-operative morbidity,mortality and prolonged hospital length of stay.Muscle ma...
Background:Induction of labor is commonly performed in obstetric practice. Many methods have been suggested as good predictors of the outcome of labor induction...