The treatment of common bile duct (CBD) disorders, such as biliary atresia or ischemic
strictures, is restricted by the lack of biliary tissue from healthy donors suitable for surgical …

Background and Aims Organoids provide a powerful system to study epithelia in vitro.
Recently, this approach was applied successfully to the biliary tree, a series of ductular tissues …

Objectives To determine the impact of imaging acquisition time on interpretation of disease
activity on 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (PET) in large-vessel …

Objective To compare the presence of head, neck and upper extremity symptoms in patients
with Takayasu’s (TAK) and giant cell arteritis (GCA) and their association with vascular …

Objective To assess the relationship between measures of disease assessment in patients
with large vessel vasculitis. Methods Patients with giant cell arteritis ( GCA ) or Takayasu …

Objective Relapsing polychondritis ( RP ) is a systemic disease. Failure to recognize RP
can lead to diagnostic delay and further complications, including death. This study was …

The current study was conducted to determine (a) the demographic and injury characteristics
of individuals who did not receive treatment for mild brain injury and (b) the reasons these …

18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) can detect vascular
inflammation in large-vessel vasculitis (LVV). Clinical factors that influence distribution of FDG …

Limited evidence is available to guide treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19),
caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). A …

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 is a pandemic with no specific therapeutic agents
or vaccination. Small published case series on critically ill adults suggest improvements in …