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The article presents a study which examines the use of 19F magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in pulmonary inflammation by tracking perfluorocarbons (PFC)-loaded monocytes. The study uses mice induced by intratracheal instillation of lipopolysaccharides (LPS) followed by PFC intravenous injection. The study shows that 19F MRI images predicted progressive pneumonia and was used to make PFCs be a contrast agent for pulmonary inflammation quantitave assessment and prognostic.

This article gives an overview of the novelties of the current ESC-guideline on "myocardial revascularization (2018)". Twenty completely new recommendations were given (seven class I, five class IIa, six class IIb and two class III). Moreover, four recommendations were upgraded and six downgraded. The comprehensive changes relate to preprocedural (diagnosis, choice of revacularisation-strategy), intraprocedural (revascularisation) and postprocedural aspects., Competing Interests: F.-J. Neumann berichtet, dass sein Arbeitgeber Forschungsunterstützung sowie Berater- und Vortragshonorare von Daiichi Sankyo, Astra Zeneca, Sanofi-Aventis, Bayer, The Medicines Company, Bristol, Novartis, Roche, Boston Scientific, Biotronik, Medtronic, Edwards und Ferrer erhalten hat.Die übrigen Autoren geben an, dass keine Interessenkonflikte bestehen., (© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.)