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Neuroimaging, a key role in diagnosis of diffuse axonal injury. CT and MRI patterns every radiologist should know
(EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF RADIOLOGY, 2023-03-01)
Jovanoska, Ivona
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Gjoreski, Aleksandar
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Lombardo, I
Learning objectives - to understand the common mechanisms and pathology of diffuse axonal injury (DAI) - to recognize the radiological appearances on Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) - to understand the role and clinical importance of neuroimaging in patients with DAI Read more Background Diffuse axonal injury as the name implies is a traumatic stretch/disruption of axons that occurs with sudden acceleration/deceleration or rotation of the brain. Patients with DAI are most commonly injured in high-velocity vehicle crashes and DAI represents 50% of all primary intraaxial traumatic brain lesions in moderate/severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). It has 80-100% autopsy prevalence in fatal injuries and even occurs in utero if pregnant woman subjected to sufficient force. Typically, patients present with loss of consciousness at the time of accident and often... Read more Findings and procedure details Non enhanced CT is the first-choice neuroimaging tool in all emergency head trauma patients, but MRI is the modality of choice for assessing suspected diffuse axonal injury. It is a potentially difficult diagnosis to make on imaging alone. Some patients with relatively normal CT scans may have significant unexplained neurological deficit, in those cases DAI should be suggestive and confirmed with MRI. On CT the finding can be subtle or absent, but that does not categorically exclude the presence of axonal injury. Contrary to the... Read more Conclusion DAI as a diagnosis should be suggestive in TBI patients with clinical symptoms disproportionate to imaging findings. More than 30% of patients with negative CT have positive MR, so in general it is clinically developed based on clinical manifestations and MRI findings. Neuroimaging plays a significant role, by detecting the location and number of lesions, not only in diagnosis but also in determining the outcome of patients after DAI.
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COVID -19 INDUCED AORTIC THROMBUS AND CRITICAL LIMBISHAEMIA
(Македонско лекарско друштво = Macedonian medical association/De Gruyter, 2023-04-07)
Nancheva Bogoevska, Andrea
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Risteski, Filip
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Gjoreski, Aleksandar
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Jovanoska, Ivona
50 years old male presented with livid redness on both feet, predominantly left, accompanied with severe pain and coldness. Two weeks before, he admitted to hospital due to COVID-19 bronchopneumonia. Urgent abdominal and lower extremities contrast enhanced CT was performed, which showed mural thrombus of the abdominal aorta (AA) extending from below the left renal artery to the iliac bifurcation and total occlusion of the left and partial occlusion of the right crural arteries. Interventional procedures are the first choice for initial emergency management, leaving surgery as a second and anticoagulant therapy as third option for treatment. Endovascular treatment is based on stent grafting. Covered stent graft was used to repair the AA and kissing stenting technique was used in the aortoilical part. The result was complete patency of AA and both iliacal arteries, with improved clinical status. Mural thrombi are likely to occur in large vessels as the heart and descending aorta, and less commonly in the aortic arch or the AA, causing flow reduction. Their occurrence is a rare in the absence of hypercoagulative state or inflammatory, infectious, or familial aortic ailments. In our case, Covid -19 is associate occurrence of thrombus in the AA, which throws out smaller thrombi in the peripheral circulation that causes critical limb ischemia (CLI).CT is the best modality for early diagnosis and endovascular treatment the least invasive treatment. Mural aortic thrombus accompanied by CLI is an urgent medical condition which, if not diagnosed and treated on time, can result in limb amputation or death. Endovascular stenting is first choice of treatment in patients without previous vascular disease.
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Placement of central venous access port in the interventional radiology suite – single center experience
(Macedonian Association of Radiologists, 2023-11)
Jovanovska, Ivona
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Gjoreski, Aleksandar
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Dungevski, Gjorgi
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Ramadani, Pranvera
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Nancheva Bogoevska, Andrea
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Single-center randomized trial comparing conventional chemoembolization versus doxorubicin-loaded polyethylene glycol microspheres for early- and intermediate-stage hepatocellular carcinoma
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2020-10-08)
Gjoreski, Aleksandar
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Jovanoska, Ivona
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Risteski, Filip
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Nedelkovski, Dane
According to Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer classification, transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) is preferred treatment for stage B and in certain cases for stage A hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Conventional TACE (c-TACE) and drug-eluting microspheres TACE (DEM-TACE) are available intraarterial therapies. Screening of patients with cirrhosis is of great importance for early detection of malignant liver nodules. Primary endpoint of this study was to compare DEM-TACE with c-TACE in terms of 12- and 24-month survival. Secondary endpoints were comparison of intensity and duration of the postembolization syndrome (PES) and severe adverse events. We randomized 60 patients with unresectable HCC one-to-one with c-TACE or DEM-TACE and followed them for at least 24 months or until death. TACE was repeated ‘on-demand. Most patients underwent two TACE sessions and the median hospital stay was 3 days for c-TACE and 2 days for DEM-TACE group. The overall 12- and 24-month survival rates were 89.8 and 70.7%, respectively, precisely 85.7 and 63.6% after c-TACE and 90.2 and 75.8% after DEM-TACE, without any significant difference (P = 0.18). Median overall survival was 21.1 months. Significant difference in the overall 12- and 24-month survival was found in patients with Child-Pugh A compared to Child-Pugh B class (P = 0.001). Child-Pugh class, aspartate aminotransferase levels and ascites independently predicted survival (P = 0.003). Both, DEM-TACE and c-TACE showed excellent 12- and 24-month survival rates. No significant difference in terms of adverse events was found. PES was slightly more severe after c-TACE, because of elevated temperature. DEM-TACE requires shorter in-hospital stay.
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METASTATIC CUTANEUS MELANOMA OF THE GALLBLADDER-CASE REPORT
(Association of medical doctors "Sanamed" Novi Pazar, 2019-08-04)
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Nancheva Bogoevska, Andrea
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Bozinovska Beaka, Gordana
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Gjoreski, Aleksandar
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Melanoma is an aggressive malignant tumor that originates from melanocytes and most com- monly occurs on the skin. Dominantly metastasize to regional lymph nodes, in the brain and lungs and rarely in the gastrointestinal (GI) system. The aim of this re- port is to present a rare case of metastasis of cutaneous malignant melanoma in the gallbladder, discovered 10 months after excision of the primary melanoma of the skin. A 45-year-old patient was hospitalized in our hos- pital due to abdominal pain in right upper quadrant and nausea lasting for 7 days. An intraluminal substrate was found in the gallbladder with computed tomogra- phy and later a CT guied biopsy was performed on it, thus proving a metastatic deposit of primary malignant melanoma. Metastatic deposits in the gallbladder are extre- mely rare finding, and 238 cases have been described in the literature.
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Tortuosity of the vertebral artery
(Macedonian Association of Anatomists and Morphologists, 2011)
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Aliji, Vjolca
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Gjoreski, Aleksandar
The aim of this study was to analyze the tortuosity of the vertebral artery and to emphasize the clinical importance of tortuosity. The data derived from this study will add important contribution to our anatomical knowledge, but they will also find clinical applications in radiology and surgery. We examined 40 patients with CT angiography and analyzed the tortuosity of the vertebral artery. Of the vessels examined, 22 (55%) followed a relatively straight course from their origin to their entry into the transverse foramen. The other 18 (45%) patients showed some form of tortuosity. Both vertebral arteries showed high incidence of tortuosity. Our study has highlighted the possible role of vertebral artery tortuosity in diagnostic and surgical procedures in order to prevent vertebral artery injury.
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Sarcoidosis of the nervous system MRI - findings
(2013-10)
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Risteski, Filip
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Gjoreski, Aleksandar
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