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Ana Maria Quintero
Publications - 6
Citations - 183
Ana Maria Quintero is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Internal medicine & Immunology. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 4 publications receiving 165 citations.
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PET/MRI in infectious and inflammatory diseases: will it be a useful improvement?
TL;DR: Together with this continuing search for the “holy grail” radiopharmaceutical, the use of hybrid imaging is another important development in the field, and a recent development in hybrid cameras is the introduction of combined PET and MRI.
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Imaging of β-Cell Mass and Insulitis in Insulin-Dependent (Type 1) Diabetes Mellitus
Valentina Di Gialleonardo,Erik F. J. de Vries,Marco Di Girolamo,Ana Maria Quintero,Rudi Dierckx,Alberto Signore +5 more
TL;DR: The availability of a noninvasively quantify β-cell mass in vivo could be useful for understanding the natural history of human insulin-dependent (type 1) diabetes mellitus, to early diagnose children at risk to develop overt diabetes, and to select patients to be treated with immunotherapies aimed at blocking the insulitis.
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Detection of insulitis by pancreatic scintigraphy with 99mTc-labeled IL-2 and MRI in patients with LADA (Action LADA 10).
Alberto Signore,Gabriela Capriotti,Marco Chianelli,Elena Bonanno,Filippo Galli,Carlo Catalano,Ana Maria Quintero,Giorgio De Toma,Silvia Manfrini,Paolo Pozzilli +9 more
TL;DR: Autoimmune diabetes in adults is associated with increased pancreatic 99mTc-IL-2 uptake, indicating the presence of insulitis, particularly within 1 year of the beginning of insulin therapy, similar to type 1 diabetes at diagnosis.
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Diagnostic Imaging of Infections and Inflammatory Diseases: A Multidisciplinary Approach
TL;DR: This Book have some digital formats such us : paperbook, ebook, kindle, epub, and another formats that related with diagnostic imaging of infections and inflammatory diseases a multidiscplinary approach book.
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Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells and Clinical Outcomes in Children With COVID-19
Katherine Bline,Angela Andrews,Melissa Moore-Clingenpeel,Sara Mertz,Fang Ye,Victoria Best,Rouba Sayegh,Cristina Tomatis-Souverbielle,Ana Maria Quintero,Zachary Maynard,Rebecca M Glowinski,Asuncion Mejias,Octavio Ramilo +12 more
TL;DR: It is found that children with severe COVID-19 had a significantly higher percentage of MDSCs than those admitted to the ward and uninfected healthy controls, and MDSC expansion was associated with longer hospitalizations and need for respiratory support in children admitted with acute COVID.