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Hall T, Leeies M, Funk D, Hrymak C, Siddiqui F, Black H, Webster K, Tkach J, Waskin M, Dufault B, Kowalski S. Emergency airway management in a tertiary trauma centre (AIRMAN): a one-year prospective longitudinal study. Can J Anaesth 2023; 70:351-358. [PMID: 36670315 PMCID: PMC9857903 DOI: 10.1007/s12630-022-02390-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2022] [Revised: 07/08/2022] [Accepted: 09/20/2022] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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PURPOSE Emergency airway management can be associated with a range of complications including long-term neurologic injury and death. We studied the first-pass success rate with emergency airway management in a tertiary care trauma centre. Secondary outcomes were to identify factors associated with first-pass success and factors associated with adverse events peri-intubation. METHODS We performed a single-centre, prospective, observational study of patients ≥ 17 yr old who were intubated in the emergency department (ED), surgical intensive care unit (SICU), medical intensive care unit (MICU), and inpatient wards at our institution. Ethics approval was obtained from the local research ethics board. RESULTS In a seven-month period, there were 416 emergency intubations and a first-pass success rate of 73.1%. The first-pass success rates were 57.5% on the ward, 66.1% in the intensive care units (ICUs) and 84.3% in the ED. Equipment also varied by location; videolaryngoscopy use was 65.1% in the ED and only 10.6% on wards. A multivariate regression model using the least absolute shrinkage and selection algorithm (LASSO) showed that the odds ratios for factors associated with two or more intubation attempts were location (wards, 1.23; MICU, 1.24; SICU, 1.19; reference group, ED), physiologic instability (1.19), an anatomically difficult airway (1.05), hypoxemia (1.98), lack of neuromuscular blocker use (2.28), and intubator inexperience (1.41). CONCLUSIONS First-pass success rates varied widely between locations within the hospital and were less than those published from similar institutions, except for the ED. We are revamping ICU protocols to improve the first-pass success rate.
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- Thomas Hall
- Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Section of Critical Care, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Section of Critical Care, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Section of Critical Care, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Section of Critical Care, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- George and Fay Yee Centre for Health Care Innovation, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Section of Critical Care, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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Merhar SL, Parikh NA, Braimah A, Poindexter BB, Tkach J, Kline-Fath B. White Matter Injury and Structural Anomalies in Infants with Prenatal Opioid Exposure. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2019; 40:2161-2165. [PMID: 31624119 DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a6282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2019] [Accepted: 09/03/2019] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Previous studies have not found structural injury or brain malformations in infants and children with prenatal opioid exposure. As part of an ongoing study evaluating neuroimaging in infants with prenatal opioid exposure, we reviewed structural brain MR imaging in 20 term infants with prenatal opioid exposure and 20 term controls at 4-8 weeks of age. We found that 8 of the 20 opioid-exposed infants had punctate white matter lesions or white matter signal abnormality on structural MR imaging, and 2 of the opioid-exposed infants had a septopreoptic fusion anomaly. No controls had white matter injury or structural malformations. Our findings underscore the importance of clinical neurodevelopmental follow-up and the need for more comprehensive imaging and long-term outcomes research following prenatal opioid exposure.
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- S L Merhar
- From the Perinatal Institute, Division of Neonatology (S.L.M., N.A.P., B.B.P.)
- Department of Pediatrics (S.L.M., N.A.P., B.B.P.), University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- From the Perinatal Institute, Division of Neonatology (S.L.M., N.A.P., B.B.P.)
- Department of Pediatrics (S.L.M., N.A.P., B.B.P.), University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Pediatric Neuroimaging Research Consortium (A.B.)
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- From the Perinatal Institute, Division of Neonatology (S.L.M., N.A.P., B.B.P.)
- Department of Pediatrics (S.L.M., N.A.P., B.B.P.), University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Department of Radiology (J.T., B.K.-F.), Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Department of Radiology (J.T., B.K.-F.), Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
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O'Dwyer R, Wehner T, LaPresto E, Ping L, Tkach J, Noachtar S, Diehl B. Differences in corpus callosum volume and diffusivity between temporal and frontal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy Behav 2010; 19:376-82. [PMID: 20920892 DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2010.06.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2010] [Revised: 06/23/2010] [Accepted: 06/24/2010] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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We analyzed volume and diffusivity measures of the corpus callosum (CC) in patients with temporal (TLE) and frontal (FLE) lobe epilepsy in comparison with healthy subjects. On high-resolution T1-weighted scans of 18 controls and 44 patients the volumes (cm(3)) of Witelson regions (WRs) and the entire CC were measured. The apparent diffusion coefficients (ADCs, 10(-5)mm(2)s(-1)) for the entire CC and three areas of interest were measured from co-registered ADC maps. The CC of patients with TLE and FLE, corrected for total brain volume, was smaller than that of controls. Patients' ADC values were higher than those of controls. Findings were significant for WR1, WR2, and WR6, the CC regions connecting the frontal and temporal lobes. Patients with FLE had smaller WR1 and higher ADC values; in patients with TLE, the findings were similar for WR6. Atrophy and increased diffusivity in subregions of the CC connecting homotopic contralateral cortical regions indicate anatomical abnormalities extending beyond the epileptogenic zone in FLE and TLE.
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- R O'Dwyer
- Neurological Institute, Epilepsy Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.
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Auchus A, Huang J, Koubeissi M, Tkach J, Friedland R, Wee A. PO06-MO-07 Diffusion tensor tractography of corpus callosum agenesis: report of two cases. J Neurol Sci 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/s0022-510x(09)70698-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Chen X, Lewis B, Hansen A, Freebairn L, Tkach J. A Study on Speech Sound Disorders Using HUSH-fMRI. Neuroimage 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/s1053-8119(09)70411-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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Wehner T, Lapresto E, Tkach J, Liu P, Bingaman W, Prayson RA, Ruggieri P, Diehl B. The value of interictal diffusion-weighted imaging in lateralizing temporal lobe epilepsy. Neurology 2007; 68:122-7. [PMID: 17210892 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000250337.40309.3d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND A subgroup of patients with nonlesional temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) has no evidence of hippocampal sclerosis on standard temporal lobe protocol MRI. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether interictal diffusion-weighted imaging adds lateralizing information in patients with TLE with and without lateralizing conventional MRI. METHODS We studied 22 patients (9 right, 13 left TLE) who had undergone temporal lobectomy and 18 control subjects. We measured hippocampal volumes on high- resolution coronal magnetization-prepared rapid gradient echo scans. Apparent diffusion coefficients (ADCs) for the entire hippocampus and three arbitrarily defined areas of interest within the hippocampal head, body, and tail were measured from the coregistered ADC map. Pathology was reviewed and correlated with imaging findings. RESULTS Fourteen of 22 patients had hippocampal atrophy on MRI (defined as volume asymmetry greater than 2 SDs compared with asymmetry in the control group). Overall, resected hippocampi (n = 22) were significantly smaller than contralateral hippocampi as well as ipsilateral hippocampi in controls. ADCs were significantly higher in resected hippocampi than contralateral hippocampi as well as ipsilateral hippocampi in controls. These differences were also observed within the three areas of interest. ADCs in the hippocampi contralateral to the epileptogenic zone (n = 22) were also higher than in ipsilateral hippocampi in controls. In the subgroup of eight patients with nonlateralizing conventional MRIs, ADCs of resected hippocampi were not significantly different compared with the contralateral side. Pathology in these patients revealed gliosis only without apparent neuron loss. CONCLUSION Interictal apparent diffusion coefficients confirm lateralization in patients with hippocampal atrophy on standard temporal lobe protocol MRI. However, they do not provide lateralizing information in patients with nonlateralizing conventional MRI.
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- T Wehner
- Epilepsy Center-S10, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.
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Sharan A, Rezai AR, Nyenhuis JA, Hrdlicka G, Tkach J, Baker K, Turbay M, Rugieri P, Phillips M, Shellock FG. MR safety in patients with implanted deep brain stimulation systems (DBS). Acta Neurochirurgica Supplements 2003; 87:141-5. [PMID: 14518542 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-6081-7_30] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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INTRODUCTION While it is desirable to perform MRI examinations in patients with deep brain stimulators (DBS), a major safety concern exists regarding the potential for excessive heating secondary to magnetically induced electrical currents. This study was designed to determine the safety of MRI and DBS. METHODS Standard configurations of DBS systems were tested. In vitro testing was performed using a 1.5-Tesla MR system, a gel-filled phantom, and the body and head RF coils with varying levels of RF energy (SAR). A fluoroptic thermometry system was used to record temperatures. RESULTS Using the 1.5-T MRI and body RF transmit coil, the temperature changes ranged from 2.5 to 25.3 degrees C. Using the 1.5-T MRI and head RF transmit coil, the temperature changes ranged from 2.3 to 7.1 degrees C. CONCLUSIONS Excessive heating does occur with certain MR imaging conditions. Under certain conditions determined in this study, patients with DBS may safely undergo anatomical MR imaging. In the future, standardized testing and more comprehensive studies will be needed to ensure the MR safety of neurostimulation systems.
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- A Sharan
- Department of Neurosurgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Rezai AR, Finelli D, Rugieri P, Tkach J, Nyenhuis JA, Shellock FG. Neurostimulators: potential for excessive heating of deep brain stimulation electrodes during magnetic resonance imaging. J Magn Reson Imaging 2001; 14:488-9. [PMID: 11599076 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.1212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Diehl B, Najm I, Ruggieri P, Tkach J, Mohamed A, Morris H, Wyllie E, Fisher E, Duda J, Lieber M, Bingaman W, Lüders HO. Postictal diffusion-weighted imaging for the localization of focal epileptic areas in temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsia 2001; 42:21-8. [PMID: 11207781 DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2001.19500.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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PURPOSE Diffusion-weighted MR imaging (DWI) is a novel technique to delineate focal areas of cytotoxic edema of various etiologies. We hypothesized that DWI may also detect the epileptogenic region and adjacent areas during the ictal and early postictal periods in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). METHODS We studied patients with intractable TLE (n = 9), due to hippocampal sclerosis (HS, n = 7), left mesial temporal lobe tumor (n = 1), and of unknown etiology (n = 1). Informed consent was obtained before inclusion in the study. All patients with single short seizures were scanned immediately after EEG-documented seizures (between 45 and 150 min); one of two patients in status was scanned 14 h after cessation of seizures. DWI results were analyzed visually and by calculating apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps. RESULTS We found significant decreases in ADC postictally in one of six patients with TLE due to HS and single short seizures. One patient with an incompletely resected temporal lobe tumor also exhibited ADC abnormalities. One patient in focal status epilepticus revealed a decrease in ADC, and one patient with a continuous aura had no DWI abnormality. CONCLUSIONS Postictal DWI technique may occasionally help delineate epileptic areas in some patients with TLE. Yield is low in patients with HS and single short seizures: it may be higher in patients with tumor or status epilepticus.
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- B Diehl
- Department of Neurology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44195, U.S.A.
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Diehl B, Najm I, Ruggieri P, Foldvary N, Mohamed A, Tkach J, Morris H, Barnett G, Fisher E, Duda J, Lüders HO. Periictal diffusion-weighted imaging in a case of lesional epilepsy. Epilepsia 1999; 40:1667-71. [PMID: 10565599 DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1999.tb02056.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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PURPOSE Diffusion-weighted MR imaging (DWI) has been used for the early diagnosis of acute ischemic lesions in humans and in animal models of focal status epilepticus. We hypothesized that DWI may be a sensitive, noninvasive tool for the localization of the epileptogenic area during the periictal period. METHODS A periictal DWI study was performed on a 35-year-old patient during focal status epilepticus with repetitive prolonged focal motor seizures originating from a lesion in the right frontal lobe. DWI results were analyzed visually and by calculating apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps. RESULTS On DWI, a single area of signal increase (decrease in ADC) was found in the region of focal electrocorticographic seizures that was mapped intraoperatively. CONCLUSIONS Ictal/postictal DWI may be a useful technique for seizure localization in patients with lesional epilepsy.
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- B Diehl
- Department of Neurology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, USA.
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Pon DJ, Plant M, Tkach J, Boulet L, Muise E, Allen RA, Rodger IW. Characterization of CHO-K1 cells stably expressing PDE-IV enzymes. Whole-cell cAMP determinations vs broken-cell enzymatic assays. Cell Biochem Biophys 1998; 29:159-78. [PMID: 9631244 DOI: 10.1007/bf02737834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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A CHO-K1 cell line stably expressing a recombinant full-length human PDE-IVa (HSPDE4A4B) enzyme was established under hygromycin B selection. Full-length expression of the protein was determined by Western blot analysis, which revealed the presence of a 125-kDa immunoreactive band using rabbit anti-PDE-IVa antibodies. The potency of inhibitor compounds was examined by their ability to increase cAMP in the whole-cell, and by their ability to inhibit cAMP hydrolysis in a 100,000 g supernatant (soluble enzyme preparation) obtained from the same cell line. Inhibition of the expressed PDE-IVa activity by selective PDE-IV inhibitors--(R) and (S)-rolipram, RS 14203, and CDP 840--at 100 nM substrate demonstrated that RS 14203 and CDP 840 were the most potent with IC50 = 9 nM, followed by (R)-rolipram (IC50 = 110 nM) and (S)-rolipram (IC50 = 420 nM). The rank order of potencies of the inhibitors in elevating cAMP in the whole-cell assay was quite different from that on the soluble enzyme. RS 14203 was still the most potent compound in elevating cAMP. Moreover, the relative rank order of potencies between CDP 840 and (R)-rolipram changed dramatically, such that (R)-rolipram was more potent than CDP 840 = (S)-rolipram. An apparent 30-fold stereoselectivity between (R)- and (S)-rolipram was also noted. The whole-cell rank order of potencies was also maintained when PKA activity ratios were measured in place of cAMP levels. The ability of the compounds to elevate cAMP in the stable CHO-K1 cells appeared to track better with the potency of the compounds against the high-affinity (Sr) conformer of the enzyme rather than the low-affinity catalytic state.
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- D J Pon
- Department of Pharmacology, Merck Frosst Center for Therapeutic Research, Kirkland, Quebec, Canada.
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The k-space trajectory of a spiral imaging sequence was measured with a self-encoding technique. The image quality improved dramatically when reconstructed with the measured k-space trajectory. There were substantial artifacts in images reconstructed with the derived k-space trajectory under the assumption of gradient system linearity. The results indicated the non-linearity of the gradient system and the effectiveness of the correction technique.
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- X Ding
- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195-5129, USA
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A heavily T1-weighted three-dimensional (3D) gradient echo sequence utilizing a 180 degrees inversion pulse has become available for clinical use, called magnetization prepared rapid acquisition gradient echo (MPRAGE). With the appropriate choice of repetition time, echo time, flip angle, and inversion time (TI), T1-weighted imaging can be performed with excellent anatomic detail and a good signal-to-noise ratio. We performed an initial evaluation of this sequence for detection of abnormalities of the internal auditory canals compared with conventional spin echo (SE) imaging. Fifteen men and 15 women were evaluated. Diagnoses included normal (n = 15 patients), acoustic neuromas (n = 7 tumors in 4 patients), cerebellopontine angle meningiomas (n = 3), postoperative for acoustic neuroma without residual tumor (n = 2), postoperative with evidence of residual tumor (n = 3), glomus jugulare (n = 1), Bell palsy (n = 1), and vestibular enhancement of probable viral etiology (n = 1). The 3D MPRAGE study consisted of 128 coronal partitions, (10/4/1), 10 degrees flip angle, 130 x 256 matrix, 2 mm slice thickness. TI time of 350 ms, 1 s recovery time, and 5.43 min examination time. All enhancing lesions identified on the conventional SE T1-weighted imaging were also identified on the MPRAGE imaging. No diagnostic difference existed between the MPRAGE and conventional SE sequences when pathology was present, but the MPRAGE sequence did have poorer resolution in the axial reformats related to the 130 x 256 in-plane matrix. While not currently able to replace conventional two-dimensional SE imaging, 3D MPRAGE may provide a valuable adjunct to the routine imaging protocol. This technique could replace the coronal T1-weighted SE sequence and provide excellent gray-white differentiation and many contiguous thin sections without a great increase in overall examination time.
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- M Shah
- Division of Radiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195
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Ross JS, Ruggieri P, Tkach J, Obuchowski N, Dillinger J, Masaryk TJ, Modic MT. Lumbar degenerative disk disease: prospective comparison of conventional T2-weighted spin-echo imaging and T2-weighted rapid acquisition relaxation-enhanced imaging. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 1993; 14:1215-23. [PMID: 8237706 PMCID: PMC8332766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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PURPOSE To compare conventional T2-weighted spin-echo imaging with a rapid acquisition relaxation enhanced (RARE) technique in the routine evaluation of lumbar degenerative disk disease. METHODS Thirty consecutive patients referred for evaluation of the lumbar spine for suspected degenerative disk disease were evaluated with sagittal and axial T1-weighted spin-echo, conventional T2-weighted spin-echo, and T2-weighted RARE "turbo spin-echo" sequences (4000/93/2 (repetition time/echo time/excitations), 192 x 256, echo train length of 8). Conventional T2-weighted and RARE images were evaluated independently by two neuroradiologists for image quality, presence of artifacts, cerebrospinal fluid signal intensity, extradural interface conspicuity, intradural nerve root conspicuity, soft-tissue detail, and signal intensity of normal and degenerated intervertebral disks. RESULTS Both readers rated the cerebrospinal fluid signal higher, the extradural interface conspicuity higher, and the nerve root detail greater on the turbo spin-echo than on conventional spin-echo images. Neither reader had a significant difference in ranking "normal" or "degenerated" disk signal on the two sequences. Both readers rated soft-tissue detail higher for conventional than for turbo spin-echo. CONCLUSION RARE sequences can replace conventional T2-weighted spin-echo sagittal studies for degenerative lumbar disk disease.
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- J S Ross
- Division of Radiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195-5129
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Masaryk TJ, Tkach J, Glicklich M. Flow, radiofrequency pulse sequences, and gradient magnetic fields: basic interactions and adaptations to angiographic imaging. Top Magn Reson Imaging 1991; 3:1-11. [PMID: 2054194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The basic process of MRI consists of two essential, relatively independent components: (1) excitation in the form of a radiofrequency pulse sequence, and (2) signal sampling and localization, that is, forming the MR image through the use of field gradients. The presence of motion (blood flow) during either excitation or sampling results in two types of corresponding effects: (1) time-of-flight effects, and (2) spin phase phenomena. These effects can be manipulated through the use of special coils, pulse sequences, gradients, and postprocessing techniques to provide angiographic images in which simple motion provides the basis for contrast.
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- T J Masaryk
- Section of Neuroradiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio 44195
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Ross JS, Tkach J, VanDyke C, Modic MT. Clinical MR imaging of degenerative spinal disease: pulse sequences, gradient-echo techniques, and contrast agents. J Magn Reson Imaging 1991; 1:29-37. [PMID: 1802128 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.1880010104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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- J S Ross
- Division of Radiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44106
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Steinberg PM, Ross JS, Modic MT, Tkach J, Masaryk TJ, Haacke EM. The value of fast gradient-echo MR sequences in the evaluation of brain disease. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 1990; 11:59-67. [PMID: 2105618 PMCID: PMC8332491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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One-hundred-fifteen patients thought to have intracranial disease were studied with various two-dimensional short repetition time, partial-flip-angle gradient-echo techniques: at 1.0 T, fast low-angle short (FLASH) at 10 degrees and 30 degrees and fast imaging with steady-state precession (FISP) at 60 degrees; at 1.5 T, FLASH 10 degrees, 30 degrees, and 60 degrees, FISP 60 degrees, and contrast-enhanced fast steady state at 60 degrees. These sequences were compared with a T2-weighted spin-echo sequence to determine the relative sensitivities of these techniques in detecting parenchymal lesions. Except for hemorrhagic lesions a substantial number of abnormalities were either not visible or poorly seen on the partial-flip-angle gradient-echo sequences. Minimizing echo time (6-9 msec) to decrease magnetic susceptibility effects did not improve lesion detection. Current usage of two-dimensional gradient-echo techniques for lesion detection is limited, except when calcification or hemorrhage is involved. Their utility may be expanded via the incorporation of three-dimensional techniques and IV contrast agents.
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- P M Steinberg
- Department of Radiology, University Hospitals of Cleveland/Case Western Reserve University, OH 44106
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A prospective study was undertaken on 204 consecutive patients comparing low flip angle gradient-echo and T1-weighted spin-echo techniques in the MR evaluation of cervical extradural disease. Four patient groups were studied with varying gradient-echo TEs (6 or 13 msec) and flip angles (10 degrees or 60 degrees). Images were evaluated independently for contrast behavior and anatomy, then directly compared for conspicuity of lesions. The FLASH sequences (especially with a 10 degrees flip angle) produced better conspicuity of disease in half the imaging time. T1-weighted spin-echo sequences were more sensitive to marrow changes and intradural disease. The short TE sequence (6 msec) did not produce any diagnostic advantage over the longer TE sequence (13 msec). A fast and sensitive MR examination for cervical extradural disease combines a sagittal T1-weighted spin-echo acquisition with sagittal and axial FLASH 10 degrees sequences.
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- C VanDyke
- Department of Radiology, University Hospitals of Cleveland, OH 44106
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Under physiologic conditions the stable isotope oxygen-17, in the form of O-17 water, lowers the proton T2 of blood, CSF, tissues, and whole organisms. With MRI the resulting changes in intensity can be detected using spin-echo pulse sequences, but much greater sensitivity is achieved in a fraction of the time with a steady-state free precession sequence such as FISP. With this sequence it is possible to detect levels as low as 0.4% Oxygen-17 water in 53 seconds or less.
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- A L Hopkins
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Anatomy, Cleveland, OH 44106
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Hopkins AL, Haacke EM, Tkach J, Barr RG, Bratton CB. Improved sensitivity of proton MR to oxygen-17 as a contrast agent using fast imaging: detection in brain. Magn Reson Med 1988; 7:222-9. [PMID: 3398769 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910070210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
Abstract
The potential utility of H2(17)O as a contrast agent has been demonstrated in biological solutions and isolated tissues but its use has been impaired by the need to run heavily T2-weighted spin-echo images. By choosing an appropriate steady-state free precession experiment sensitive to T1/T2, we have improved the available contrast-to-noise per unit time by more than a factor of 5. This allows easy measurement of the proton effects for concentrations as low as 0.4% H2(17)O in less than 1 min. Injection into small animals produces a marked reduction in the overall image intensity. Consecutive imaging at the rate of one every 52 s has been used to follow the rate of change in brain image intensity immediately after injection.
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- A L Hopkins
- Department of Developmental Genetics and Anatomy, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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Lewis RJ, Martin R, Tkach J. Effectiveness of hexachlorophene and surgical sponges in the treatment of acne. Curr Ther Res Clin Exp 1972; 14:270-6. [PMID: 4260490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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