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REBEL Core Cast 94.0 – SBO

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There is no history or physical exam feature that rules out the disease Lactate elevation is a late finding in SBO. Examples: adhesions, neoplasms, inflammatory disease (i.e. There is no history or physical exam feature that rules out the disease Lactate elevation is a late finding in SBO. PMID: 23758299 Maung AA et al.

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Medical Imaging Response Criteria: Morphological Measures

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Imaging response criteria are used to define a “treatment response” status, used by the radiologist to evaluate whether the response to therapy is complete or partial or conversely, if the disease is not responding or even progressing. 2012) Brit J Clin Pharmacol. iv] Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers Alliance. 91: 523-528.

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Journal Scan – This Month in Other Journals, April 2023

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MRI before and after a gadolinium-based contrast agent is the preferred imaging modality for evaluating brain tumors. In 2012, Iliff et al., (J. 147ra111, 2012) used in vivo imaging technology to discover for the first time the way in which CSF and ISF exchange substances and named it the glymphatic system.

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Emergency Guide to Stroke Neuroimaging

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3] To identify a causative vascular lesion, which may or may not be amenable or contraindicatory to thrombolysis Non-Contrast Head CT NCCT is usually the first imaging modality obtained in the acute evaluation for stroke. Vascular Diseases of the Brain.” Within the thrombolysis window (<4.5 and specificity of 95% with a 97.1%