Victor Babeș University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timișoara

Association Between Graves’ Disease and the Risk of Thyroid Carcinoma: The Role of Clinical, Metabolic, Hormonal, Immunological, and Ultrasound Biomarkers

Background: The relationship between Graves’ disease (GD) and thyroid carcinoma (TC) remains controversial, particularly regarding the predictive value of metabolic, hormonal, immunological, and ultrasound biomarkers. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate...

The Cost of the Cure: Antibiotic Exposure as a Risk Factor for Irritable Bowel Syndrome

The intricate interplay between the gut microbiome and the enteric nervous system remains a paramount focus in understanding the multifactorial pathogenesis of disorders of gut–brain interaction (DGBI), most notably irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). While the clinical entity of pos...

Beyond Accuracy: Pneumonia Severity Grading in Chest X-Rays Using RSNA 2018 Bounding-Box Extent Metadata and ViT

Chest X-ray pneumonia assessment is commonly formulated as a binary classification problem that does not explicitly represent radiographic burden. In this work, we reinterpret the RSNA 2018 Pneumonia Detection Challenge dataset by using expert bounding-box annotations to derive t...

Pulmonary Reserve and Respiratory Recovery After Cardiac Surgery: Insights from Preoperative Spirometric Phenotyping

Background: Postoperative respiratory dysfunction remains a frequent complication after cardiac surgery, yet the influence of preoperative pulmonary reserve on postoperative respiratory recovery remains incompletely understood. We investigated whether preoperative spirometric phe...

EUS-guided and US-guided percutaneous splenic biopsy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of separately pooled diagnostic and safety outcomes

Ultrasound (US)-guided percutaneous splenic biopsy has been widely used to evaluate focal or diffuse splenic lesions and has shown promising efficacy and safety. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided biopsy has emerged as an alternative approach for tissue acquisition from splenic l...

Changing Etiological Patterns of Pediatric Meningitis: A Three-Year Experience from a Tertiary Pediatric Emergency Hospital in Romania

Background and Objectives: Pediatric meningitis remains a major diagnostic and therapeutic emergency because clinical presentation may be nonspecific and early etiological distinction directly influences treatment, infection control, and epidemiological surveillance. Although bac...

Clinical Phenotypic Spectrum and Multisystem Burden in Neurofibromatosis Type 1: A Retrospective Regional Cohort Study

Background: Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a multisystem genetic disorder characterized by marked phenotypic heterogeneity. This study aimed to describe the clinical spectrum and multisystem burden of NF1 in a regional retrospective cohort. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed...