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Mr. Melvin J. Collier, RWWL AUC, June 2011
This video is a conversation with Mr. Melvin J. Collier. Mr. Collier talks about his book, "From Mississippi to Africa: A Journey of Discovery". Daniel Le, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Ecografia con mezzo di contrasto di seconda generazione. Caratterizzazione dell’angiomiolipoma renale
[High-resolution computed tomography study (HRCT) in so-called emphysema B. The correlations between the radiogram, the anatomical findings yielded by high-resolution computed tomography and the clinico-functional assessment]
The results are reported of a prospective study on 28 emphysematous patients with clinical, functional and radiologic correlations. Thirteen of 28 patients had type-B, the clinical "blue and bloater", emphysema. The grade of emphysema was investigated on conventional chest films and on HRCT scans, with a visual scoring system. Hyperinflation was assessed on conventional chest films and correlated with the extent of emphysema on HRCT images and with functional impairment. In our series, the extent of emphysema in B-type patients was markedly lower than in other patients of the same age, with the same smoking habits, dyspnea and functional impairment. Moreover, the incidence of centrilobular involvement was higher, though not statistically significant. The B-type exhibited more severe dilatation of subsegmental pulmonary arteries (76.9% vs. 20% p < 0.001) and a striking incidence of small airway disease (84.6% vs. 26.6%, p < 0.002). This findings may explain the radiographic pattern of "increased vascularity" seen on chest films. Bronchiolectasis and small airway wall thickening are much more frequent in type-B emphysema, together with patchy areas of ground-glass opacity and small peripheral nodules. A close correlation was observed between signs of small airway disease on HRCT images and functional clinical impairment. Thus, the small airway disease might eventually prove to be a more critical factor in causing functional and hemodynamic impairment in B-type emphysema than the actual extent of centrilobular emphysema
Contrast-enhanced ultrasound in non-operative management of pancreatic injury in childhood
We report a 5-year-old child with pancreatic trauma from a blunt abdominal injury that was monitored with contrast-enhanced sonography. Unenhanced US failed to demonstrate the abnormality that was recognized by CT and MRI. The injury was well demonstrated by contrast-enhanced US which was therefore used for follow-up until its healing
[The assessment of the severity of pulmonary edema by computed tomography. A comparison between high-resolution computed tomography, objective evaluation with density masks and functional tests]
The results of high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) were correlated with those of pulmonary function tests, chest films and CT expiratory density mask values in the evaluation of pulmonary emphysema in 33 symptomatic subjects. Emphysema was quantitated with both subjective and objective measurements. Conventional chest films were useful to diagnose severe emphysema but its actual extent was more reliably evaluated with CT scoring systems. HRCT and density mask correlated well with function tests, but the former method exhibited stronger correlation with carbon monoxide diffusion capacity. The opposite was true for hyperinflation and expiratory obstruction variables. Subjective CT estimates, which are quick and easy to perform, were seen to correspond more specifically to the pathophysiologic derangement and should therefore be used to evaluate the anatomic extent of disease. The functional severity of emphysema correlated only with the overall extent of disease and not with its regional distribution in the upper or lower lungs. Finally, in 4 cases (12.1%) with low CT scores, FEV1 was reduced but diffusion capacity values were normal. In one of these patients HRCT showed signs of bronchiolitis. In fact, small airway disease might be a more critical factor in determining functional impairment than the actual anatomical emphysema
Interview Excerpt of Mr. Donald M. Crawford, Sr.
(1948-2018) Donald Mitchell Crawford, Sr. (“DC”), musician, author, and educator, was born on May 24, 1948, and was a lifelong resident of Birmingham, AL. His father and mother owned and operated “C & S Charter Tours Bus Company,” the first black-owned bus company in the state of Alabama. Crawford was a 1966 graduate of Western Olin High School in Birmingham, AL. Crawford was an outstanding drum major, playing first chair alto saxophone under the tutelage of the late Amos F. Gordon, Sr. After high school, he received a music scholarship to Alabama State University (ASU) where he earned both his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Music Education and was later inducted into the “School of Music Hall of Fame” at ASU. He was the youngest ever inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and performed with the 291 st and 283rd Army Band in Fort Bennett, GA. DC was Band Director at Jackson Olin High School and taught in the Birmingham School System for over thirty-five years. His love for music and performing lead him after his retirement to serve as Band Director for Miles College.
Crawford is the author of “The Wheels of the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement.” This book chronicles the lives of his late father and mother, Worcy and Christine Pride Crawford, and the role he and the company played in the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement
Interesting anecdotes, memoirs, allegories, essays, and poetical fragments, [electronic resource] : tending to amuse the fancy, and inculcate morality. By Mr. Addison.
Mr. Addison is a pseudonym.On p. 1: Anecdote of Cromwell.Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from British Library
Interesting anecdotes, memoirs, allegories, essays, and poetical fragments, [electronic resource] : tending to amuse the fancy, and inculcate morality. By Mr. Addison.
Mr. Addison is a pseudonym.P. 1 contains an 'Anecdote' beginning "A certain nobleman, .. ".Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from British Library
Interesting anecdotes, memoirs, allegories, essays, and poetical fragments, [electronic resource] : tending to amuse the fancy, and inculcate morality. By Mr. Addison.
Mr. Addison is a pseudonym.On p. 1: Anecdote of Doctor Young.Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from British Library
Mr Alain Elkann Author and Journalist Italian Republic
Visit by Mr Alain Elkann Author and Journalist Italian Republi
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