Journal: Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery

Article Title: Relationship between carotid artery stiffness and total serum homocysteine in coronary slow flow phenomenon: a high-resolution echo-tracking study

doi: 10.21037/qims-21-931

Figure Lengend Snippet: Evaluation of the carotid artery ultrasound in both the CSFP group and the control group

Article Snippet: The research was performed using a duplex Doppler ultrasound instrument (Prosound α-10; Aloka Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) with a 7.5 MHz linear array probe and a high-resolution echo-tracking system.

Techniques: Control

Journal: Journal of Clinical Medicine

Article Title: Splenic Arterial Pulsatility Index to Predict Hepatic Fibrosis in Hemodialysis Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection

doi: 10.3390/jcm12052020

Figure Lengend Snippet: Scatter plot of SAPI and LSM (kPa) with TE. The Pearson correlation coefficient was 0.413 ( p < 0.001).

Article Snippet: We conducted a retrospective, cross-sectional study to include hemodialysis patients with chronic HCV infection at the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) and NTUH Yun-Lin Branch who underwent a liver stiffness measurement (LSM) with TE (FibroScan ® , Echosens, Paris, France) and SAPI with duplex Doppler ultrasonography (Aplio 500 ® , Canon Medical Systems Incorporation, Tokyo, Japan) between January 2010 and June 2022.

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Journal: Journal of Clinical Medicine

Article Title: Splenic Arterial Pulsatility Index to Predict Hepatic Fibrosis in Hemodialysis Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection

doi: 10.3390/jcm12052020

Figure Lengend Snippet: Box plots of SAPI for METAVIR fibrosis stages F0, F1, F2, F3, and F4 as determined using LSM. The tops and bottoms of the boxes are the first and the third quartiles. The tops and bottoms of the horizontal lines are the upper and lower whiskers. The circles denote mild outliers. The Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient was 0.529 ( p < 0.001).

Article Snippet: We conducted a retrospective, cross-sectional study to include hemodialysis patients with chronic HCV infection at the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) and NTUH Yun-Lin Branch who underwent a liver stiffness measurement (LSM) with TE (FibroScan ® , Echosens, Paris, France) and SAPI with duplex Doppler ultrasonography (Aplio 500 ® , Canon Medical Systems Incorporation, Tokyo, Japan) between January 2010 and June 2022.

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