A5011762665- Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases
- Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
- Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
- Ultrasound and Hyperthermia Applications
- MRI in cancer diagnosis
- Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention
- Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging
- Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
- Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis
- Peripheral Artery Disease Management
- Gastrointestinal Tumor Research and Treatment
- Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
- Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging
- Bone Tumor Diagnosis and Treatments
- Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography
- Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications
- Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
- Cerebrovascular and genetic disorders
- Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment
- Vascular Malformations and Hemangiomas
- Renal and Vascular Pathologies
- Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment
- Management of metastatic bone disease
- Uterine Myomas and Treatments
Policlinico Umberto I
2012-2018
Sapienza University of Rome
2007-2018
Italian Institute of Technology
2014
Pathological Society
2013
Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Cagliari
2011
Objectives The objectives of this study were to evaluate the efficacy in pain management magnetic resonance (MR)–guided focused ultrasound for primary treatment painful bone metastases and assess its potential local control metastases. Materials Methods This was a prospective, single-arm research with approval from institutional review board. Eighteen consecutive patients (female, 8; male, 10; mean [SD] age, 62.7 [11.5] years) enrolled. examined clinically severity interference accordance...
To determine the preliminary feasibility, safety, and clinical efficacy of magnetic resonance (MR)-guided focused ultrasound for treatment painful osteoid osteoma.This prospective institutional review board-approved study involved six consecutive patients (five males one female; mean age, 21 years) with a diagnosis osteoma based on imaging findings. All underwent MR-guided ablation after providing informed consent. Lesions located in vertebral body were excluded. The number sonications...
To evaluate the diagnostic performance and effect on therapeutic management of 64-section computed tomographic (CT) angiography in assessment steno-occlusive disease patients with peripheral arterial (PAD), conventional digital subtraction (DSA) as reference standard.The study protocol was approved by institutional review board, written informed consent obtained from all patients. A total 212 symptomatic PAD underwent CT subsequent DSA. For stenosis analysis (≥ 70% stenosis), bed divided...
Objective The objectives of the study were to determine whether perfusion computed tomography (CT-p) and magnetic resonance diffusion-weighted imaging (MR-DWI) can allow evaluation effects chemotherapy combined with antiangiogenetic treatment on liver metastases in patients advanced colorectal cancer if changes CT-p MR-DWI correlate response therapy as assessed by conventional Response Evaluation Criteria Solid Tumors (RECIST). Methods Eighteen from underwent before 6 months after treatment....
Purpose The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility magnetic resonance–guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) ablation for pain palliation and local tumor control in selected patients with unresectable primary pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Materials Methods After providing dedicated informed consent, 7 histologically proven adenocarcinoma underwent MRgFUS treatment on a 3-T unit featuring system. All lesions were evaluated device accessibility before treatment. Procedures performed...
To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of gadofosveset-enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) angiography in assessment carotid artery stenosis, with digital subtraction (DSA) as reference standard, and to determine value reading first-pass, steady-state, "combined" (first-pass plus steady-state) MR angiograms.This study was approved by local ethics committee, all subjects gave written informed consent. DSA were performed 84 patients (56 men, 28 women; age range, 61-76 years) stenosis at Doppler...
To prospectively evaluate the potential of gadobenate dimeglumine for high-resolution steady-state (SS) contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography (CE-MRA) carotid arteries as an adjunct to conventional first-pass (FP) MRA, with computed tomography (CTA) and digital subtraction (DSA) reference.Institutional ethics committee approval written informed consent were obtained. Forty consecutive patients underwent FP MRA 15 mL dimeglumine, using a 3D FLASH sequence (14 sec acquisition time)....
Pancreatic cancer is the fourth cause of mortality worldwide while liver sixth most common worldwide. Despite constant development non-invasive ablative technique, these two tumours represent still a challenge for oncology due to relatively low survival and poor prognosis. Ultrasound-guided high intensity focused ultrasound (USgFUS) ablation has been proved as feasible treatment option in patients with pancreatic hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Given relative intrinsic limit US guidance, we...
To assess the feasibility of combined first-pass (FP) and steady-state (SS) contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) peripheral arteries with gadobenate dimeglumine (MultiHance) to evaluate diagnostic performance relative digital subtraction (DSA).A total 35 patients symptomatic arterial occlusive disease (PAOD) underwent FP MRA (repetition time [TR]/echo [TE]/flip angle [FA]/acquisition [TA] = 3.5/1.2/30°/14s) at 1.5T after intravenous injection 10 mL dimeglumine. Thereafter,...
Background The goals of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) are to reduce tumor volume and offer a prognostic indicator in assessing treatment response. Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (CE-MRI) is an established method for evaluating response NAC patients with breast cancer. Purpose To validate the role unenhanced MRI (ue-MRI) compared CE-MRI women Material Methods Seventy-one ongoing cancer underwent before, during, at end NAC. Ue-MRI was performed T2-weighted sequences iterative...
Persistent sciatic artery is a very uncommon embryologic vascular variant, with prevalence of 0.05% based on angiographic studies. Two different types this anomaly can occur, complete or incomplete, the basis relationship between and femoral artery. Although many these patients are asymptomatic, it may represent threat to viability lower extremity because atherosclerotic degeneration resulting in aneurysmal dilatation, occlusive thrombosis, embolic phenomena distal complication. We present...