Primary Aortic Angiosarcoma: A Review of Two Cases Highlighting Unique Imaging and Clinical Characteristics.

Angiosarcomas are rare vascular connective tissue tumors originating from the tunica intima, media, or adventitia and may arise in large vessels. Here two cases of primary angiosarcoma of the aorta are described that highlight initial manifestations and unique complications from diffuse arterial tumor emboli, which led to delayed cancer diagnosis. In patients with aortic lesions, imaging characteristics must be thoughtfully reconciled with clinical scenarios, particularly in patients with no additional evidence of atherosclerosis or vasculitis. Keywords: Oncology, Neoplasms-Primary, MR-Angiography, Aorta © RSNA, 2021.

Extending Cardiac Functional Assessment with Respiratory-Resolved 3D Cine MRI.

This study aimed to develop a cardiorespiratory-resolved 3D magnetic resonance imaging (5D MRI: x-y-z-cardiac-respiratory) approach based on 3D motion tracking for investigating the influence of respiration on cardiac ventricular function. A highly-accelerated 2.5-minute sparse MR protocol was developed for a continuous acquisition of cardiac images through multiple cardiac and respiratory cycles. The heart displacement along respiration was extracted using a 3D image deformation algorithm, and this information was used to cluster the acquired data into multiple respiratory phases. The proposed approach was tested in 15 healthy volunteers (7 females). Cardiac function parameters, including the end-systolic volume (ESV), end-diastolic volume (EDV), stroke volume (SV), and ejection fraction (EF), were measured for the left and right ventricle in both end-expiration and end-inspiration. Although with the proposed 5D cardiac MRI, there were no significant differences (p > 0.05, t-test) between end-expiration and end-inspiration measurements of the cardiac function in volunteers, incremental respiratory motion parameters that were derived from 3D motion tracking, such as the depth, expiration and inspiration distribution, correlated (p < 0.05, correlation coefficient, Mann-Whitney) with those volume-based parameters of cardiac function and varied between genders. The obtained initial results suggested that this new approach allows evaluation of cardiac function during specific respiratory phases. Thus, it can enable investigation of effects related to respiratory variability and better assessment of cardiac function for studying respiratory and/or cardiac dysfunction.

Regeneração in vitro de Parapiptadenia rigida / In vitro regeneration of Parapiptadenia rigida

O objetivo deste trabalho é estabelecer um protocolo de micropropagação para a Parapiptadenia rigida utilizando explantes de plântulas assépticas obtidas da germinação de sementes in vitro. Para a indução de brotos, segmentos cotiledonares e nodais foram inoculados em meio de cultura ½ WPM acrescido de 0; 0,25; 0,50; 1,0mg L-1 de BAP ou KIN. O enraizamento dos explantes com broto foi realizado em meio » WPM suplementado com 0; 0,25; 1,0; 1,75mg L-1 de AIB. Não foi necessária a adição de citocinina ao meio para indução de brotos em segmento cotiledonar e nodal. Contudo, a dose de 0,50mg L-1, independente do tipo de citocinina, promoveu maior tamanho dos brotos e maior número de folhas por broto. O maior potencial de enraizamento ocorreu em segmentos cotiledonares inoculados em meio contendo 1,0mg L-1 de AIB. A utilização desse protocolo de regeneração permite a obtenção de mudas de Parapiptadenia rigida.

The aim of this research is to develop a micropropagation protocol for Parapiptadenia rigida using aseptic seedling explants from in vitro germinated seeds. To the sprout induction, cotyledonary and nodal segments were inoculated in a ½ WPM culture medium containing 0; 0.25; 0.50; 1.0mg L-1 of BAP or KIN. The rooting of sprouted explants was rooted in a » WPM culture medium containing 0; 0.25; 1.0; 1.75mg L-1 of IBA. It was not necessary the addition of cytokinin in medium to induce sprouting in cotyledonary and nodal segments. However, the doses of 0.50mg L-1, independently of cytokinin type, promoted greater size of sprouts and the largest number of leaves per sprout. The highest rooting potential occurred in cotyledonary segments inoculated in medium with 1.0mg L-1 of IBA. The use of this regeneration protocol allows obtaining Parapiptadenia rigida seedlings.