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Meet the Minnies 2024 finalists

AuntMinnie

His research interests include using structural and functional MRI -- particularly ultrahigh-field, 7-tesla MRI -- to map brain microstructure and develop neurosurgical treatment of brain tumors, epilepsy, and neurodegenerative and movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and dystonia.

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REBEL Core Cast 107.0 – Vertebral Osteomyelitis

REBEL EM

MRI is key to diagnosis, obtain this imaging in all patients who raise clinical suspicion Patients with hemodynamic instability and neurologic compromise warrant empiric antibiotics. Imaging Gadolinium enhanced MRI – modality of choice, highly sensitive and specific ( Mylona 2009 ). Semin Arthritis Rheum. 2009 Aug; 39(1):10-7.

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Journal Scan – This Month in Other Journals, June 2023

AJNR

It has well-defined radiographic features and various clinical presentations. They described six radiographic phenotypes of CSVD: (1) recent small subcortical infarct, (2) white matter hyperintensity, (3) lacune of presumed vascular origin, (4) widened perivascular spaces, (5) cerebral microbleed, and (6) brain atrophy.

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Emergency Guide to Stroke Neuroimaging

Northwestern EM

A 2014 pooled analysis of 21 studies from 1993 to 2013 showed CTA has a sensitivity of 83.2% It has a similar sensitivity and specificity for acute ischemic stroke as CTA, its use has been validated in multiple interventional stroke studies, and it has been shown to predict core infarct size accurately compared to the gold standard MRI.[7,8,15]

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Journal Scan – This Month in Other Journals, October 2022

AJNR

Of the patients with radiographically proven adverse radiation effects (AREs; 15%), 4 were symptomatic. 3 tables and 5 figures, with MRI 4. for cerebral amyloid angiopathy: a multicentre, retrospective, MRI-neuropathology diagnostic accuracy study. Charidimou A, Boulouis G, Frosch MP, et al. The Boston criteria version 2.0

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