Researchers link stroke patients' anger and aggression to brain injury
... In addition, researchers examined brain lesions and found there was a correlation between the loca...as frequently present when there was a presence of lesions affecting the frontal, lenticulocapsular, and pontine base areas. "We think that the inability to co...Study confirms seasonal fluctuation in immunity-generating cells among MS patients
...l variation could be detected in the number of MRI lesions nor in the number of patients experiencing relapse... cells), there was not a discernable change in the lesions in the brain which are inherent with MS. This was the first study that set out to analyze longitud...Bethesda 2001: A revised system for reporting pap test results aims to improve cervical cancer
...ould help physicians detect and treat precancerous lesions more rapidly. In addition, the term "atypical squamous cells favor reactive" has been eliminated in order to focus attention on women at higher risk of having an abnormality. Benign Cellular Changes identified as "negative": The previous versio...High-dose interferon beta-1b for multiple sclerosis patients
...ly, remained free from new proton density/T2 brain lesions at the MRI assessment. A second study (p 1461) in this weeks issue of THE LANCET examines a possible association between MS and type-1 diabetes (another autoimmune disease) in Sardinia, a population with little genetic variation. Maria Giovanna Marr...Low-grade cervical lesions likely to regress spontaneously in adoloscent women
...nd young adult women who develop low-grade, benign lesions in the cervix due to human papilloma virus (HPV) have a 95 percent or better chance that the lesions will clear up on their own and not progress to a more advanced stage, a UCSF study shows. The resul...Repeat stenting not always durable
... no radiation. The 34 patients who had irradiated lesions were divided into four groups: old stent not re-stented; old/new stent overlap, new stent only and lesions treated without re-stenting. The researchers analyzed the success of the procedure with volumetric...Continued disruption of movement among alcoholics despite abstinence
...ly shown to be sensitive and specific to selective lesions of the cerebellar hemispheres. These five measures were limb ataxia (alternated finger tapping and variants of the finger-to-nose and heel-to-shin tests), paced tapping, eye-hand coordinated tracing, timed response reflecting preparation and executi...Mayo Clinic researchers discover enzyme has potential to stop multiple sclerosis tissue damage
... is present in inflammatory central nervous system lesions such as those in MS, may promote demyelination." Dr. Scarisbrick and colleagues discovered MSP in 1997 while she was a research fellow at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla. They cloned MSP and developed probes and other tools to work with the enzyme ...More children at risk of heart disease
...h untreated Kawasaki syndrome will develop cardiac lesions during the acute phase of their illness, increasing their chances of developing heart problems later on in life." Dr Aziz Sheikh, an NHS R&D National Primary Care Training Fellow, from Imperial College London, at Charing Cross Hospital, adds: "Despit...PET/CT may identify 'vulnerable' aortic plaque
...esponds to high risk or vulnerable atherosclerotic lesions that could lead to future cardiovascular events," said Dr. Tatsumi. "The aortic wall FDG uptake finding may be useful for detection of patients at increased risk for future cardiovascular events." "We believe that the aortic wall FDG uptake may be ...University of Pittsburgh research shows combined PET/CT finds cancerous lesions standard CT misses
...ical carcinomas, they would likely catch cancerous lesions that would not be found by CT (computed tomography... found the advanced scanners identified additional lesions in 80 percent of a group of patients with ovarian carcinoma and in 45 percent of a group of patients...Cervical tissue changes may explain false negative pap smears
...on, allowing physicians to actually see suspicious lesions on the cervix. The remaining 13 women had abnormal Pap smears. Researchers were able to analyze E-cadherin distribution in 10 of these samples. Eight of 10 of these samples showed normal distribution of E-cadherin. In contrast, of the 12 women with ...New practice guidelines focus on neuroimaging of premature and low birth weight babies
...onal weeks. The screening is recommended to detect lesions such as major hemorhages or white matter damage that might affect the infant's neurodevelopment. There is little evidence to support routine MRI of all very low birth weight preterm infants with abnormal results from the cranial US testing. When a f...Jefferson Lab/Hampton University partnership results in new medical instrumentation center
...omic particles that can identify cancerous breast lesions that traditional mammograms have trouble different...mammograms to improve identification of suspicious lesions prior to biopsy. That device is currently being evaluated in clinical trials and thus far, based on ...New scanner holds promise of better breast cancer detection
...68%). The sensitivity of breast cancer detected in lesions <1cm increased from 46.7% to 66.7% using the new camera. It also detected 3 lesions that were not visible with mammography; one of which did not appear on the standard camera. All thre...More frequent ivermectin treatment could reduce symptoms of disease responsible for river blindness
...nse itching, disfiguring skin lesions, and various lesions in the eye that can lead to river blindness (which... reducing both transmission and acute itching skin lesions would almost certainly be much greater than after yearly treatment." In an accompanying Commentary ...No justification for early laser treatment of uncomplicated childhood haemangiomas
... treatment or PDL. The number of children whose lesions showed complete clearance or minimal residual sign...n uncomplicated haemangiomas. Furthermore, treated lesions are at increased risk of skin atrophy and hypopigmentation. The long-term results of this study are ...Vitamin E is important for early prevention of cardiovascular disease in middle-aged women
Atherosclerosis, or the formation of plaques and lesions in the coronary arteries, may signal the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD) early in life, perhaps decades before any explicit clinical diagnosis of CVD is made. Adequate intakes of antioxidant vitamins are known to protect against plaque fo...More hand transplants to be performed, predict experts at international congress
... Indeed, rejection resulted, manifested by painful lesions on his arm and hand. Studying the amputated graft indicated the rejection process was most prevalent in the outer layer of the skin but scant in the underlying tissues, such as bone and muscle. The researchers' conclusion: Monitoring changes on the s......lic activity and pinpoint the location of abnormal lesions to target the disease more precisely. "When used alone the PET and CT scans are good diagnostic tools, but when combined, they're much superior," says Adler. "The advantage here is the cancer is highlighted on the computer screen. We're able to pin...