Fellows’ Journal Club In this retrospective cohort study, the authors evaluated 16 patients diagnosed with reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome who underwent MR imaging, including MRA, within 72 hours of RCVS onset (initial MRA) and within 48 hours of thunderclap headache
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors performed a retrospective blinded analysis of cervical cord MR imaging examinations of 50 patients with MS. In each patient, 2 neuroradiologists measured the number of focal lesions and overall lesion conspicuity in the STIR/proton density–weighted
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors performed intraindividual qualitative and quantitative comparison between T1-weighted spin-echo and 3D MPRAGE images in 18 patients who had multiple exposures to gadodiamide. Differences in signal between the 2 sequences for both baseline and last examination
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors explored the effect of multimodal imaging (CT perfusion and/or CT angiography) versus noncontrast CT alone on time to treatment and outcomes in the IMS III trial. Of 656 subjects enrolled in the trial, 90 (13.7%)
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors evaluated the clinical records and neuroimaging of patients with spontaneous intracranial hypotension from September 2005 to August 2014. Patients with classic spontaneous intracranial hypotension (n = 33) were compared with those with intracranial hypotension with
Fellows’ Journal Club Four full-time neuroradiologists, working an average of 50% clinical and 50% academic activity, systematically recorded all the non-relative value unit– generating consults and conferences in which they were involved during 3 months. The 4 neuroradiologists working an
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors set out to determine the maximum level of statistical iterative reconstruction that can be used to establish dose-reduced head CT protocols in a primarily pediatric population while maintaining similar appearance and level of image noise
Fellows’ Journal Club Track density imaging (TDI) is a novel MR imaging postprocessing technique based on high angular-resolution diffusion acquisitions that generate super-resolution images derived by whole-brain probabilistic streamline tractography. TDI and echo modulation curve T2 mapping were combined with
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors investigated the impact of early extubation and ventilation duration in a cohort of 103 patients that underwent thrombectomy under general anesthesia. Prolonged ventilation was associated with pneumonia during hospitalization and unfavorable functional outcome (mRS greater
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors describe a Lean Six Sigma project with the goal of reducing the relative use of pediatric head CTs in their population of patients with hydrocephalus by 50% within 6 months. The existing baseline imaging practice
