Unveiling Wunderlich syndrome: Diagnosis and management of a rare spontaneous renal hematoma by Rebecca Merrill, Pete Jordanides, Jessica Krizo, Erin L. Simon

“…Causes and presenting symptoms are variable, with flank pain being a common symptom. CT or MRI imaging is necessary for diagnosis, and embolization is often the treatment of choice to avoid further complications.…”
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Endovascular treatments, predictors and outcomes of cerebral aneurysm by Daniel Encarnación Santos, Gennady Chmutin, Ahmad Rami Kassar, Aysi Gordon Gullanyi, Ismail Bozkurt, Jack Wellignton, Bipin Chaurasia

“…Conclusion: From the synthesis of various reviewed studies, effective management strategies involve early detection of bleeding using diagnostic tests like MRI or CT angiography, considering neurological functioning levels assessed through scales such as the Fisher scale or the Hunt and Hess scale for subarachnoid haemorrhage or potential stroke. …”
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Camptocormia in Parkinson's Disease by Kazuo Abe, Yutaka Uchida, Masaru Notani

“…Also we evaluated patients with camptocormia by MRI. Of the 153 PD patients, 27 had camptocormia (mean age, 67.9±7.9 years old; disease duration, 6.1±3.9 years). …”
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Evaluation of feasibility accuracy and safety after 79 O-ARM based stereotactic brain biopsies by Inès Bouscatel, Benoit Marlier, Claude-Fabien Litré, Valéry Batchinsky-Parrou, Maxime Rivollier, Stanislas Loniewski, Jean-Charles Kleiber

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the accuracy and safety of FSBB with the help of the intraoperative 3D O-ARM system. A preoperative MRI allowed for targeting the tissue to be sampled. …”
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Hypertriglyceridemia Is Associated with Reduced Leukoaraiosis Severity in Patients with a Small Vessel Stroke by Daqiang Ke, Feng Zhou, Hui Liang, Yang Xu, Haiyan Lou

“…PVH and SWMLs were accessed on MRI with the Fazekas scale, and lipid levels were measured. …”
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Two Synchronous Neonatal Tumors: An Extremely Rare Case by M. Rodríguez-Zubieta, K. Albarenque, C. Lagues, A. San Roman, M. Varela, D. Russo, G. Podesta, D. Steinberg, C. Schauvinhold, A. Etchegaray, M. T. G. de Dávila

“…We report a case of a newborn with two synchronous tumors—sialoblastoma and hepatoblastoma—diagnosed at 20 weeks of gestation by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasonography (US). The aim of this study was to describe the management of this case together with a review of the literature. …”
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Biomarkers of Rehabilitation Therapy Vary according to Stroke Severity by Erin Burke Quinlan, Lucy Dodakian, Jill See, Alison McKenzie, Jill Campbell Stewart, Steven C. Cramer

“…We examined the performance of candidate structural, functional, and angiogenesis-related MRI biomarkers before and after a 3-week course of standardized robotic therapy in 18 patients with chronic stroke and hypothesized that results vary significantly according to stroke severity. …”
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Infliximab Dose Reduction Sustains the Clinical Treatment Effect in Active HLAB27 Positive Ankylosing Spondylitis: A Two-Year Pilot Study by Boel Mörck, Rille Pullerits, Mats Geijer, Tomas Bremell, Helena Forsblad-d'Elia

“…Significant reductions in BASDAI, BASFI, and BASMI scores, decrease in ESR and CRP, and improvement in SF-36 were observed at weeks 16 and 56. The MRI-defined inflammatory changes in the sacroiliac joints disappeared in 10/15 patients (67%) already at 16 weeks. …”
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Noninvasive Near-infrared Imaging of Fluorochromes within the Brains of Live Mice: An In Vivo Phantom Study by Jan Klohs, Jens Steinbrink, Till Nierhaus, Riad Bourayou, Ute Lindauer, Peyman Bahmani, Ulrich Dirnagl, Andreas Wunder

“…To precisely locate the implanted capsules, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was performed. Fluorescence reflectance imaging (FRI) and transillumination fluorescence imaging (TFI) were conducted to analyze and compare sensitivity and target-to-background ratios of the two methods. …”
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A Case of Renal Pelvic Cancer Complicated by Horseshoe Kidney Treated with RoboSurgeon Gasless Single-Port Retroperitoneoscopic Nephroureterectomy by Hiroaki Suzuki, Kosuke Takemura, Kazumasa Sakamoto, Madoka Kataoka, Masaya Ito, Yasukazu Nakanishi, Ken-ichi Tobisu, Fumitaka Koga

“…A 78-year-old man who had a horseshoe kidney (HSK) visited us because of gross hematuria and suspicious urine cytology. CT and MRI revealed a right renal pelvic tumor of 28 mm in diameter. …”
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Performance of Vasopressin Stimulated Bilateral Inferior Petrosal Sinus Sampling in Corticotropin Dependent Cushing’s Syndrome with Negative or Equivocal 3 Tesla Contrast Enhanced... by Puneet Shivnani, Rajeev Kasliwal, Gourav Goyal, Jyoti Sharma, Utkarsh Balani, Pankaj Gupta, Bhawani S. Sharma, Dinesh Yadav, Vineet Mishra, Surendra K. Sharma

“…Our objective was to assess the accuracy of LVP-stimulated BIPSS in differentiating Cushing’s disease (CD) from ectopic ACTH syndrome (EAS) with negative or equivocal 3T contrast-enhanced MRI (CEMRI). Methods: Seventeen patients with clinically and biochemically confirmed ACTH-dependent CS with equivocal or negative CEMRI pituitary underwent BIPSS using LVP as a stimulating agent. …”
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Analysis of Multidimensional Clinical and Physiological Data with Synolitical Graph Neural Networks by Mikhail Krivonosov, Tatiana Nazarenko, Vadim Ushakov, Daniil Vlasenko, Denis Zakharov, Shangbin Chen, Oleg Blyus, Alexey Zaikin

“…The paper demonstrates the effectiveness of this approach through two classification tasks: synthetic and fMRI data from cognitive tasks. Convolutional Graph Neural Network architecture is then applied, and the results are compared with established machine learning algorithms. …”
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A Case of John Cunningham Virus Induced Rhombencephalitis after Rituximab Therapy for Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura by Silpita Katragadda, Varshaa Koneru, Genevieve Devany, Aaron S. DeWitt, Vasudev H. Tati

“…Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed right cerebellar lesion and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was positive for JC virus. …”
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ARV1 p.Gln62Ter, a novel mutation linked to developmental and epileptic encephalopathy-38 by Mostafa Neissi, Ayoob Radhi Al-Zaalan, Misagh Mohammadi-Asl, Mojdeh Roghani, Javad Mohammadi-Asl, Kamele Jorfi

“…The patient presented with seizures, microcephaly, and abnormal MRI findings. Despite conventional anti-seizure drugs, seizures persisted from infancy. …”
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MRSA Spinal Epidural Abscess as a Neurosurgical and Infectious Disease Emergency with Unresolved Antimicrobial Solution by James Ebot, W. D. Freeman, Robert Wharen, Mark Anthony Diaz, Claudia Libertin

“…He was transferred to our academic center after diagnosis of entire spine epidural abscesses from C1 to sacral levels with midthoracic MRI T2 hyperintensities of the vertebral bodies and disc concerning for osteomyelitis and discitis. …”
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Predicting conversion of Alzheimer’s disease based on multi-modal fusion of neuroimaging and genetic data by Yang Xi, Qian Wang, Chenxue Wu, Lu Zhang, Ying Chen, Zhu Lan

“…We proposed a classification method of sMCIs and pMCIs based on multi-modality data fusion of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP), ratio of gray matter volume (RGV) obtained by morphometric measures, and sMRI images to predict the progression of AD. We validated the effectiveness of the proposed method by applying it to the task of identifying the disease status on the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative dataset. …”
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Chorea Hyperglycemia Basal Ganglia Syndrome in a 63-Year-Old Male by Michael Sperling, Roshan Bhowansingh

“…CT scan of the head demonstrated an abnormal increased intensity within the right lenticular nucleus and right caudate head most likely due to microcalcifications/mineralization. MRI of the brain demonstrated nonspecific T1 and T2 hyperintense abnormalities in the same area about the right basal ganglia. …”
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Aggressive Central Nervous System Relapse after Autologous Stem Cell Transplant in Multiple Myeloma: Case Reports and Literature Review by Rui Bergantim, Juliana Bastos, Maria José Soares, Bruno Carvalho, Pedro Soares, Cristina Marques, Jennifer Costa, José Eduardo Guimarães, Fernanda Trigo

“…The presence of neurological abnormalities in anamnesis and physical examination on a patient with MM should always prompt to suspect of a CNS involvement, and active investigation must be undertaken. MRI is the standard radiological method to detect CNS-MM, with histopathological corroboration by stereotactic biopsy and CSF evaluation alongside. …”
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Fatal Retroperitoneal Bleeding Caused by Neurofibromatosis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Patrick R. Moerbeek, Jesse M. van Buijtenen, Baukje van den Heuvel, Arjan W. J. Hoksbergen

“…Unfortunately, the patient died five days later due to irreversible brain damage. Revision of an MRI scan made one year earlier showed a 10 cm large retroperitoneal neurofibromatous lesion exactly at the location of the current bleeding. …”
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Enhanced Temporal Coupling between Thalamus and Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Mediates Chronic Low Back Pain and Depression by Hong Li, Qiaoyan Song, Ruya Zhang, Youlong Zhou, Yazhuo Kong

“…Combining psychophysics and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), we investigated the structural and functional brain plasticity in 36 patients with LDH compared with 38 age- and gender-matched healthy controls. …”
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