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🩺🔍 Advancing perioperative care with point-of-care ultrasound

Can gastric ultrasound improve fasting assessment before surgery?

📄 Role of Point-of-Care Gastric Ultrasound in Advancing Perioperative Fasting Guidelines

✍️ Authors:
Alina Razak, Silva Baburyan, Esther Lee, Ana Costa, Sergio D. Bergese

🔍 This study highlights the growing role of point-of-care gastric ultrasound in evaluating gastric contents and supporting safer, more individualized perioperative fasting strategies.

👉 Read the full article:
https://brnw.ch/21x2T25

🫀 Alcoholic vs. idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy—are they truly different?

This study by Vallejo-García et al. reveals a distinct CMR phenotype in alcoholic cardiomyopathy, characterized by greater myocardial fibrosis and right ventricular dysfunction compared with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy.

The findings highlight the value of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) in improving disease characterization and supporting more personalized patient assessment.

📄 Read the full article:
https://brnw.ch/21x2RSl

🧬⚖️ New Section in *Diagnostics*: Forensic Diagnostics

We are pleased to announce the launch of the new “Forensic Diagnostics” section in Diagnostics, dedicated to advancing diagnostic technologies and analytical approaches in forensic science.

The section welcomes submissions on topics including:
• Post-mortem imaging and virtopsy
• Forensic pathology and chemical analysis
• Molecular diagnostics for identification and kinship analysis
• Diagnostic techniques for trauma and injury assessment
• Advances in analytical technologies applied to forensic science

This new section aims to provide a platform for innovative research at the intersection of diagnostics, forensic medicine, and analytical science.

📩 We welcome your submissions and contributions.

We are delighted to welcome Fernanda De-Paris as a Committee Member of the 1st International Online Conference on Diagnostics! 🌍🔬

🏥 Affiliation:
• Laboratory Diagnostic Service — SDLab, Porto Alegre, Brazil
• Hospital de Clínicas of Porto Alegre (HCPA), Porto Alegre, Brazil

🔍 Research interests:
Molecular biology in the diagnosis of infectious diseases, virology, precision medicine, and next-generation sequencing.

We are honored to have Dr. De-Paris join the committee and contribute her expertise to IOCDi2026.

👉 Conference website: https://brnw.ch/21x2RNN

🎤 We are honored to welcome Prof. Dr. Joris Delanghe as a Keynote Speaker at the 1st International Online Conference on Diagnostics (IOCDi 2026)!

🏛️ Department of Diagnostic Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

🗣️ Keynote talk:
An overview on current glycation biomarkers

Prof. Dr. Joris Delanghe is internationally recognized for his contributions to medicine, biochemistry, molecular biology, pathology, nephrology, infectious diseases, and forensic medicine. His research spans topics such as advanced glycation end products, inflammation, COVID-19, chronic kidney disease, nutrition, and molecular diagnostics.

🔬 Research interests include:
Biochemistry • Proteins • Metabolism • PCR • ELISA • Genetics • Antibodies • Inflammation

We are delighted to have Prof. Delanghe share his expertise at IOCDi 2026.

🦠🔬 Beyond positive or negative: understanding TB infection states

Discriminating Tuberculosis Infection States: Immunological Signatures and Emerging Diagnostics is now open for submissions, highlighting cutting-edge research on immune responses, biomarkers, and next-generation diagnostic tools in tuberculosis.

From latent infection to active disease, better discrimination means better patient care and disease control.

🔗 Explore the Topic:
https://brnw.ch/21x2NIA

🩺📢 Topic Open for Submissions

Advances in Comprehensive Management Strategies for Inflammatory Bowel Disease welcomes submissions focused on innovative strategies in IBD diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, and patient-centered care.

This Topic aims to highlight current advances and interdisciplinary perspectives that can improve outcomes for patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

🔗 Learn more and submit your work:
https://brnw.ch/21x2NIs

🩺📘 Explore the latest issue of Diagnostics!

📢 Diagnostics, Volume 16, Issue 9 (May-1 2026) is now available online, featuring 165 articles covering the latest advances in clinical diagnostics, medical imaging, AI in healthcare, pathology, laboratory medicine, and more.

🔗 Explore the full issue:
https://brnw.ch/21x2NG2

📢 Meet us at the Swiss Congress of Radiology 2026 (SCR’26)!

We are pleased to announce our participation in SCR’26, where we will host a dedicated booth and engage with the radiology and medical imaging community.

📅 28–30 May 2026
📍 Lausanne, Switzerland

SCR’26 brings together experts in radiology, imaging technologies, and clinical diagnostics to discuss the latest scientific and technological advances in the field.

🔗 Conference website:
https://brnw.ch/21x2NFj

🔗 Learn more:
https://brnw.ch/21x2NFi

📢 Abstract Submission Deadline Extended!

There is still time to submit your research to the 1st International Online Conference on Diagnostics (IOCDi 2026).

🗓️ New extended abstract submission deadline: 22 June 2026

📄 Abstract requirements:
• 200–300 words
• Structured format: Introduction, Methods, Results, Conclusions
• Original, unpublished work in clear, publication-ready English

🎤 Authors may indicate their preferred presentation type: oral, poster, or both. Final decisions will be made by the conference chair and scientific committee.

📩 Acceptance notifications will be sent by 22 July 2026.

🔗 Submit your abstract:
https://brnw.ch/21x2NF7

📝 Register here:
https://brnw.ch/21x2NF6

🌐 Conference website:
https://brnw.ch/21x2NF8