Background: Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)Conventionally, Central Venous Pressure (CVP) monitoring has beenused by intensivists to measure intravascular volume. However, it is an invasive procedure resulting in many complications. Non-invasive ultrasonographic measurement of inferior vena cava collapsibility index (IVC-CI) is a promising alternative. Therefore, this study wasconducte...

BACKGROUND Functional renal failure and cardiovascular dysfunction are common complications of liver cirrhosis. This study aimed to evaluate cardiac performance, systemic vascular resistance (SVR) and fluid status in patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis either with or without functional renal failure. METHODS Sixty patients diagnosed as having decompensated liver cirrhosis were divided...

A 58-year-old male presented to our division complaining of mild lumbago and transient gross hematuria during the recent 1 month. Physical examination revealed Grade 2 hypertension and low-grade fever. Laboratory tests showed mild anemia and slightly elevated serum C-reactive protein level (6.55 mg/dl). Contrast-enhanced computed tomography depicted a heterogeneously enhanced tumor in the left ...

BACKGROUND In order to assessment of intravascular fluid measurement of central venous pressure (CVP) is used via central venous catheterization (CVC). This procedure is highly invasive and may cause serious complications such as pneumothorax, infection, hematoma and etc. It is so valuable procedure if we can uses a less invasive or noninvasive procedure to assess patients intravascular fluid i...

Preoperative evaluation of the indeterminate lung nodules is important for individual treatment colorectal cancer (CRC). We aim to develop and validate discriminative radiomics deep learning approaches differentiating subcentimenter metastases (LMs) in CRC patients. Models were developed a primary cohort included 1194 consecutive patients with initial subcentimeter size LMs on CT. Patients rand...

Abstract Background Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a critical medical condition that requires prompt diagnosis and treatment to avoid serious morbidity mortality risk. Multidetector CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) considered the first-line imaging modality for suspected acute PE. The presence of right heart strain, which supports diagnosis, special attention. aim our retrospective study assess reli...

BACKGROUND A validated tool has long been sought to provide clinicians with a uniform and accurate method to assess hydration status in the pediatric emergency medicine population. Outpatient clinicians use CDC height- and weight-based curves for the assessment of physical development. In hospital, daily weights provide objective data; however, these are usually not available at presentation.On...

BACKGROUND Hypotension is a common side effect of general anesthesia induction, and when severe, it is related to adverse outcomes. Ultrasonography of inferior vena cava (IVC) is a reliable indicator of intravascular volume status. This study investigated whether preoperative ultrasound IVC measurements could predict hypotension after induction of anesthesia. METHODS One hundred four adult pa...

Resection of malignant lesions arising in the dorsal sector of the liver is a challenging procedure because the sector is located deep in the abdominal cavity and surrounded by the inferior vena cava (IVC) and the major hepatic veins [1 – 9]. A hanging maneuver is an innovative procedure in hepatic surgeries, in which the liver parenchyma is hung by a tape, thereby making a straight cutting lin...

We report a 41-year-old woman with a retroperitoneal schwannoma mimicking hepatic tumor in the caudate lobe. Dynamic computed tomography in the early phase showed an enhanced tumor (2.7 cm in diameter) in the Spiegel lobe of the liver, which compressed the inferior vena cava (IVC). We also performed left hepatic angiographic computed tomography, and found that the tumor was less enhanced. The p...