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Enlarged Lymph Nodes on Screening Mammograms Predict Cardiometabolic Disease, Cardiovascular Risk

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milla1cf Fri, 05/10/2024 - 08:10 May 10, 2024 — According to the Summa Cum Laude Award-Winning Online Poster presented during the 124th ARRS Annual Meeting , fat-enlarged axillary nodes on screening mammograms can predict high cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, Type 2 diabetes (T2DM), and hypertension (HTN). Rubino et al.

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Clinical Conundrums: Do We Need to Order a CT for Every Patient with Renal Colic?

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Clinical Scenario: A 35-year-old man with no PMH presents with left flank pain, hematuria and history of kidney stones. In a young patient who has a clear clinical diagnosis, there is no required imaging. 2011; 18(7):699-707. CT in Detecting Urinary Tract Calculi: Influence on Patient Imaging and Clinical Outcomes Radiology.

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Extracardiac findings common on CT, MRI

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Clinically significant extracardiac findings are common on CT and MRI imaging and are especially associated with exam indication and patient age, researchers have reported. Their assessment included information from 208,506 cardiac CT exams and 228,462 cardiac MRI exams entered into the registry between January 2011 and November 2023.

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ARRS: Dartmouth poster wins for CVD risk prediction potential using mammograms

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A scientific poster on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk prediction using fat-enlarged axillary nodes visualized on screening mammograms won the Summa Cum Laude Award at the 124th American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting.

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Interobserver agreement modest on ILD diagnosed with CT imaging

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Interobserver agreement for assessing interstitial lung disease (ILD) using high-resolution CT (HRCT) is moderate, researchers have reported. Our results demonstrate that repeatable assessment of disease severity, extent, and progression is challenging even for expert radiologists," the group noted.

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LI-RADS shows low NPV in per-patient liver tumor assessment

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However, the researchers noted that the emphasis on specificity can lead to disease under-staging. The team included patient records from 206 HCC patients who underwent a liver transplant from 2011 to 2017. The team compared these per-patient designations with the presence of viable disease at explant pathology.

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AI With Volumetric Thresholds Facilitate Opportunistic Screening for Splenomegaly

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A secondary cohort of 104 patients (62 men, 42 women; mean age, 56 years) with end-stage liver disease underwent pre-liver transplant CT from January 2011 to May 2013. Pickhardt et al.’s