Spaced repetition and other key factors influencing medical school entrance exam success: insights from a French survey.

Background: First-year medical candidates encounter steep learning demands when transitioning from high school to university. Spaced repetition– a method of distributing review sessions over time– improves long-term memory retention. This study assessed its effectiveness alongside lifestyle and academic factors in students preparing for the medical school entrance examination.

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in the follow-up of patients with Fabry cardiomyopathy.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the follow-up of patients with Fabry disease. Our hypothesis was that LV functional parameters and native myocardial T1 and T2 values could be used to monitor treatment efficacy.

Materials And Methods: This prospective, observational, multicenter study included patients with Fabry disease who underwent two cardiac MRI examinations performed at 1.

How to use MRI in cardiac disease with diastolic dysfunction?

Left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction (DD) is an initially asymptomatic condition that can progress to heart failure, either with preserved or reduced ejection fraction. As such, DD is a growing public health problem. Impaired relaxation, the first stage of DD, is associated with altered LV filling.

Fusion imaging for pulmonary artery embolization: impact on fluoroscopy duration and contrast agent exposure.

Objectives: To assess the impact of fusion imaging guidance on fluoroscopy duration and volume of contrast agent used for pulmonary artery embolization.

Methods: Thirty-four consecutive patients who underwent pulmonary artery embolization for pulmonary arterio-venous malformation ( = 28) or hemoptysis ( = 6) were retrospectively included. In the experimental group ( = 15), patients were treated using fusion imaging with 2D/3D registration.

CT annulus sizing prior to transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR): evaluation of free-breathing versus breath-holding acquisition.

Objectives: To assess feasibility and accuracy of aortic annulus measurements using cardiac computed tomography angiography (CTA) performed during free-breathing prior to transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).

Materials And Methods: Sixty consecutive TAVR candidates underwent free-breathing wide-detector cardiac CTA, followed by a percutaneous valve replacement. For each, a theoretical valve size was suggested through CT measurements of the annulus, then compared to the size of the actual implanted transcatheter heart valve (THV).

Surgery for lung cancer: postoperative changes and complications-what the Radiologist needs to know.

Imaging findings after thoracic surgery can be misleading. Knowledge of the normal post-operative anatomy helps the radiologist to recognise life-threatening complications and conversely not to wrongly evoke a complication in cases of trivial post-operative abnormalities. In this educational article, we reviewed the expected patterns after thoracic surgery including sublobar resection, lobectomy, pneumonectomy and related techniques.

Impact of bi-planar localization of the tricuspid valve on the evaluation of right ventricular functional parameters in the short axis plane.

Primary objective was to evaluate by cardiac MRI the accuracy of right ventricular stroke volume (RVSV) measurement in the short-axis (SA) plane with cross-referencing of the tricuspid plane. 2D phase-contrast measurement at the main pulmonary artery (PSV) was the reference. Secondary objective was to analyze the reproducibility of RV functional parameters.