We have previously reported that, in addition to well-known pemphigus antigens (desmoglein and pemphigus vulgaris antigen), desmocollin (Dsc), another desmosomal cadherin, is recognized by certain pemphigus sera. Furthermore, we noticed that two Dsc species with a slightly different relative molecular weight were recognized by various pemphigus sera. This difference may contribute to the differ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE SWI is a new MR imaging method that maximizes sensitivity to magnetic susceptibility effects with phase information for visualizing small cerebral veins. The purpose of this study was to report the use of SWI in combination with DSC in examining related RCVD in patients with intracranial DAVFs. MATERIALS AND METHODS Ten patients with angiographically confirmed DAVFs wit...

INTRODUCTION In brain perfusion imaging, arterial spin labeling (ASL) is a noninvasive alternative to dynamic susceptibility contrast-magnetic resonance imaging (DSC-MRI). For clinical imaging, only product sequences can be used. We therefore analyzed the performance of a product sequence (PICORE-PASL) included in an MRI software-package compared with DSC-MRI in patients with steno-occlusion of...

Whole brain segmentation and cortical surface parcellation are essential in understanding the brain’s anatomicalfunctional relationships. Multi-atlas segmentation has been regarded as one of the leading segmentation methods for the whole brain segmentation. In our recent work, the multi-atlas technique has been adapted to surface reconstruction using a method called Multi-atlas CRUISE (MaCRUISE...

Decidual stromal cells (DSC) are the main cellular component of the human decidua, but thus far their ascription to a given cell lineage is uncertain. In previous studies, these cells have been isolated and maintained in culture, and their antigen phenotype has been analysed to determine their affiliation. However, the presence in the culture medium of high proportions of fetal calf serum (FCS)...

OBJECTIVE To develop and validate a prognostic risk index of cardiovascular mortality after cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT). DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING District general hospital. PATIENTS 148 patients with heart failure (mean age 66.7 (SD 10.4) years), New York Heart Association class III or IV, LVEF <35%) who underwent CRT. INTERVENTIONS CRT device implantation. ...

BACKGROUND The present study aimed to define the optimal number of atlases for automatic multi-atlas-based brachial plexus (BP) segmentation and to compare Simultaneous Truth and Performance Level Estimation (STAPLE) label fusion with Patch label fusion using the ADMIRE® software. The accuracy of the autosegmentations was measured by comparing all of the generated autosegmentations with the ana...

BACKGROUND Delayed sternal closure (DSC) after cardiac surgery is a therapeutic option in the treatment of the severely impaired heart in pediatric cardiac surgery. The results with the technique of DSC over a 4-year period are examined with regard to mortality and morbidity. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed records of 38 patients who had undergone DSC among 1100 congenital cardiac operati...

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES To assess if preradiation and early follow-up measurements of relative regional cerebral blood flow (rrCBF) can predict treatment outcome in patients with cerebral metastases and to evaluate rrCBF changes in tumor and normal tissue after stereotactic radiosurgery using arterial spin-labeling (ASL) and first-pass dynamic susceptibility-weighted contrast-enhanced (DSC) pe...