A pediatric neuroradiologist reviewed clinically indicated MRIs to exclude those with white matter injury or lesions in the deep nuclei.
Nevertheless, in our experience CT is requested within 24 72 h in most patients with clinical and laboratory features indicating PEAP to exclude other complications (particularly DP) with similar manifestations.
Discussions with institutional colleagues have indicated they prefer to exclude references/bibliography checks from the calculations so that students do not see higher scores resulting from reference material matches.
More specifically, we construct a ghost map (binary image) for each input frame except for the reference, which indicates which pixel to exclude or include in the image fusion process.
These relationships suggest the existence of several broad categories of disease, and indicate an attempt to exclude some of these as possibilities.
In addition to an abnormal chest x ray, contrast enhanced spiral CT of the lungs is indicated in older patients to exclude thrombus in the central pulmonary arteries and chronic thrombo-embolic disease.
All patients with a positive screen move on to TTE together with further tests such as HRCT, V/Q, and 6-minute walk test (6MWT) as clinically indicated, mainly in order to exclude the other contributing factors for PH (left heart dysfunction, ILD, and pulmonary embolism).
The presence of calcite indicates that, despite efforts to exclude CO2 during sample preparation, some CO2 contamination did occur.
