Reports of a rare form of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis with profound thrombocytopenia have emerged following introduction of the adenovirus-vectored coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines. Between March and June 2021, seven cases of refractory vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia were referred to our institution for mechanical thrombectomy. The condition of 1 patient deteriorated during interhospital transfer, and the remaining 6 underwent successful recanalization. No procedure-related adverse events were reported. At the time of this writing, 3 patients have been discharged with a good functional outcome (mRS 0-1), one required rehabilitation for mild dysarthria and vocal cord palsy (mRS 3), and 2 have died due to severe mass effect. Our anecdotal experience suggests that endovascular therapy may be safe and effective in reducing thrombus burden in selected cases of postvaccination cerebral venous sinus thrombosis.ABBREVIATIONS: COVID-19 ¼ coronavirus disease 2019; CVST ¼ cerebral venous sinus thrombosis; HIT ¼ heparin-induced thrombocytopenia; ICH ¼ intracerebral hemorrhage; PF ¼ platelet factor; VITT ¼ vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia
Ulcerative colitis is an idiopathic inflammatory disorder affecting the mucosa of the colon with superficial erosions and ulcers associated with bleeding. Severity assessment using current scoring schemes such as UCEIS and MAYO relies on the subjective interpretation of the physician and fails to take into account the size of the different lesions, their number and their distribution throughout the colon. Automatic lesion detection and grading procedures can enable fine-grained assessment of lesion severity for treatment follow-up. This work aims to learn automatic bleeding and ulcer lesion detectors. As such algorithms may need to be tuned to the characteristics of the equipment used to perform the colonoscopy, we train our detectors on a dataset obtained by the Gastroenterology group at the Bichat and Beaujon hospitals. The patients’ videos were anonymous, analyzed after obtaining their consent. The study was approved by the local research study committee. To minimize expert annotation burden, only rectangular annotations are required instead of a precise delineation of lesion boundaries (Figure 1). However, this dataset contains many mislabeled pixels, especially in the corners of the rectangles. This affects the evaluation of the models’ performance and our ability to find correct models. Standard sensitivity and specificity cannot be used effectively on this dataset. We propose to evaluate model sensitivity on the annotation level and keep specificity at the pixel level. On the training set, we consider that a model correctly identifies a lesion if it agrees with the expert on a subset of the annotation, and count the detected annotations weighted by their area. For robustness and ease of interpretation, we explore the set of linear classifiers, and propose an efficient sampling scheme that rejects trivial models. This method is evaluated on a database of 10 colonoscopy videos (5 training videos and 5 test videos). In spite of the limited quality of the annotations, we find lesion detectors with a good annotation-level sensitivity (93% specificity / 89% sensitivity for bleeding and 57% specificity / 83% sensitivity for ulcers) and visual performance (see Figure 1). The detector performance is computed reliably. We evaluated sensitivity and specificity on 20 random subsets containing 10% of the images, and obtain similar performance for the same patient for all models (cf Figure 2). Figure 1. From left to right: Annotated frame and corresponding bleeding and ulcer detection with the best linear models Figure 2. Performance of the three best linear models on random subsets extracted from 5 training videos (left) and 5 test videos (right). Each ellipse corresponds to one linear model applied to a given video. Its size represents the variability (standard deviation) of sensitivity and specificity among the random subsets. However, we observe that the inter-patient performance is variable and that the best models can fail on some patients. In Figure 2, the sensitivity is below 20% is some cases. This suggests that the models are not universal because bleeding and ulcers have a different appearance in patients, and that this should be corrected before automatic detection. Alternatively, models should be adapted to the patient characteristics.
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