MARRA , Stefano

Introduction: Obstructive sleep apneas are a frequent clinical condition in which there are momentary interruptions or reductions in breathing activity. To date, the gold standard therapy is the use of Continous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP). But, due to the relatevely high frequency of poor compliant patients, there is the need to research...

PURPOSE: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease leading to neuromuscular palsy and death. We propose a computational approach to [18F]-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT images to analyze the structure and metabolic pattern of skeletal muscle in ALS and its relationship with disease aggressiveness. MATERIALS AND...