001). Fewer subjects were required for 3D imaging to detect a 1 mm difference in wall thickness (72 vs 56, P < 0.001).
Conclusions: High spatial resolution CMR with automated phenotyping provides greater
power for mapping wall thickness than conventional 2D imaging and enables a reduction in the sample size required for studies of environmental and genetic determinants of LV wall thickness.”
“Objective: Recurrent tonsillitis and upper respiratory tract obstruction due to adenotonsillar hypertrophy are the most common indications for (adeno)tonsillectomy ((A)TE). Symptoms of upper respiratory Torin 2 inhibitor tract infection and obstruction can, however, be attributed to lower airway pathology and thus treated with respiratory selleck kinase inhibitor medication – this is non-antimicrobial medication used for lower respiratory diseases like bronchitis, bronchiolitis, asthma and episodic wheezing. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of the current (A)TE practice in Belgium on the use of respiratory medication in subjects aged 0-15.
Methods: Retrospective data on 11.114 subjects aged 0-15 years old who underwent (A)TE from January 1st 2002 until Sept 30th 2003 were retrieved
from the database of the Christelijke Mutualiteit, the largest mutual health insurance society in Belgium. We compared the use of respiratory medication 12 months before and 12 months after (A)TE.
Results: Out of 11.114 subjects, 4.654 received at least one prescription for respiratory medication in the year before and/or after (A)TE. In this subgroup, the median respiratory medication use reduced with 32% in the year after surgery.
Conclusion: Compared with the year before surgery, the median use of respiratory medication in subjects aged 0-15 drastically reduces in the year after (A)TE. A possible reason for this reduction is that children with upper airway obstruction and infections are often wrongly
diagnosed as having lower airway problems. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.”
“The paravermal zone of the right rostral cerebellar hemisphere is an important area for speech function. Recent functional MRI (fMRI) selleckchem studies reported the significance of lobulus simplex within the rostral cerebellum for speech function. Here, we assess the responsible lesion for dysarthria within the rostral cerebellum.
In order to evaluate the lesion in the rostral cerebellum responsible for cerebellar dysarthria, we compared the locations of infarcts from 4 reported patients with isolated dysarthria caused by cerebellar infarction as well as an additional newly encountered patient in whom cerebellar infarction caused isolated dysarthria.
The paravermal zone of the rostral cerebellar hemisphere was involved in all 5 patients. The lesions were located in the lobulus quadrangularis and lobulus simplex in 3 of the patients, and the lobulus simplex and lobulus semilunaris superior in 2 of the patients.