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Intravenous lipid emulsion (ILE) is typically applied as a rescue therapy after the use of conventional treatments for beta blocker (BBs) or calcium channel blocker (CCB) overdoses. We describe the case of a 72-year-old man who presented to our ED after attempting suicide by antihypertensive drug overdose. His blood pressure dropped upon arrival at the ED, and we consequently administered multitherapy including relatively early ILE to prevent prolonged hypotension. He regained stable hemodynamic status on the third day and was later discharged without major sequelae.Measurement of the myocardial strain rate (SR), with high spatial resolution, is useful in evaluation of the transmurality of myocardial infarction. As the SR distribution is calculated using velocities observed at multiple positions in the heart wall, it is necessary to estimate the local velocity to measure SR distribution. In the present study, our previously proposed local velocity estimator, with multifrequency phase differences, was used to measure SR distribution in the heart wall. The SR distribution measured with the proposed local velocity estimator revealed alternate layers of contraction and relaxation, which were not measured with the conventional velocity estimator with spatial averaging. The reproducibility of the SR distributions was confirmed in three consecutive heartbeats with three subjects. High-spatial-resolution SR measurement with the proposed local velocity estimator will allow myocardial layer-specific analysis in the transmural direction.Carotid ultrasound measurement of total plaque area (TPA) provides a method for quantifying carotid plaque burden and monitoring changes in carotid atherosclerosis in response to medical treatment. Plaque boundary segmentation is required to generate the TPA measurement; however, training of observers and manual delineation are time consuming. Thus, our objective was to develop an automated plaque segmentation method to generate TPA from longitudinal carotid ultrasound images. Tanespimycin purchase In this study, a deep learning-based method, modified U-Net, was used to train the segmentation model and generate TPA measurement. A total of 510 plaques from 144 patients were used in our study, where the Monte Carlo cross-validation was used by randomly splitting the data set into 2/3 and 1/3 for training and testing. Two observers were trained to manually delineate the 510 plaques separately, which were used as the ground-truth references. Two U-Net models (M1 and M2) were trained using the two different ground-truth data sets from osis.The posterior trans-septal portal technique is an arthroscopic surgery of the knee providing surgeons with the ability to fully visualize the posterior compartment. With this procedure, portals are placed at the posteromedial and posterolateral aspect of the knee. Visualization of the medial and lateral posterior compartments then allows working space for the creation of the intra-articular portal that is made by dividing the posterior septum. We provide an imaging overview of the posterior septum, the trans-septal portal technique, possible indications, and introduce how surrounding anatomy may warrant unique imaging considerations.The prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AFib) in adult patients with atrial septal defect (ASD) who did not undergo ASD repair in the childhood is higher than that in general population. The primary aim of this study is to collect various related articles published in the literature and to compare the clinical outcomes with different treatment strategies by systemic reviews and meta-analyses. Of the 1299 initially screened articles, 13 studies with 213 patients were included in this study. All the patients were adults and the mean age at presentation was 55.7 years (range 34-79 years) and 47.8% of the patients were male. Regarding the types of the AFib, there were paroxysmal AFib in 62 patients, persistent AFib in 40 patients and long-standing persistent AFib in 111 patients. For adult patients with ASD and AFib, ASD closure is beneficial for most of the patients if significant left-to-right shunt exists but risk stratification cannot be overlooked because worsening of the functional class may be experienced by some patients post-operatively, especially for the patients with advanced age (>75 years). Reduction of prevalence of AFib could be observed after ASD closure alone which is mainly effective for paroxysmal AFib but not for persistent or long-standing persistent AFib. The successful ablation rate of paroxysmal AFib by catheter ablation is similar to that of all kinds of AFib by surgical ablation. Regarding AFib recurrence, bi-atrial surgical ablation is better than right-atrial ablation for the adult patients with ASD and AFib.

Reconstruction of finger motion is a therapeutic goal in tetraplegic patients. Although nerve transfer of the brachialis branch of the musculocutaneous nerve to the anterior interosseus nerve has been previously described, this results in unreliable reinnervation because the donor nerve is proximal to the target muscle. We describe an alternative technique in which nerve transfer is performed using the lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve as a vascular in situ nerve graft. The clinical results are reported.

Nine upper limbs of 6 patients (mean age 25 years) with tetraplegia were subjected to brachialis-to-anterior interosseus nerve transfer using the lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve as a vascular in situ nerve graft, at a mean of 6 months after injury. Additional supinator branch transfer to the posterior interosseous nerve was performed for 6 upper limbs and to the flexor digitorum superficialis motor branch for 1 upper limb.

At a mean of 2 years of follow-up, thumb and finger flexion strength scored M3-M4 in 5 of the 9 limbs according to the Medical Research Council scale. Key pinch and grip pinch averaged 0.6 kg (range, 0-1.0 kg) and 2.2 kg (range, 0-8 kg), respectively. No donor-site deficit was observed.

Brachialis-to-anterior interosseus nerve transfer with an in situ lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve graft can be used to reconstruct thumb and finger flexion in tetraplegic patients. Combined with supinator-to- posterior interosseous nerve transfer, simultaneous active extension of the fingers can be achieved.

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