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PET/CT predicts adverse cardiac events in men with prostate cancer

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To elucidate this, the researchers identified 354 men with prostate cancer who underwent PET/CT at their institution from 2012 to 2017. Among the patients, there were 98 MACE events in 74 patients (21%).

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Trauma Resuscitation Updates

REBEL EM

Lancet 2010 [10] >20,000 adult trauma patients with SBP <90mmHg Patients randomized to TXA 1g over 10 min + 1g IV over 8hrs vs Placebo given within 8hrs of injury In-hospital mortality by 28d reduced (14.5% NEJM 1994. [2]

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Evidence grows for use of amyloid PET in China

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In patients treated at a memory clinic at Huashan Hospital in Shanghai, amyloid PET scans detected brain pathology associated with the disease and led to changes in treatment plans in 36.5% of patients, noted lead author Ke-Liang Chen, MD, a neurologist at Fudan University.

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Responding to a Ransomware Attack in Radiology

Everything Rad

Reading Time: 8 minutes read By Dr. Niall Sheehy, MB, MRCP, FFR RCSI, St James’s Hospital -Trinity College Dublin. In May 2021, St James’s Hospital in Dublin was one of 54 public hospitals affected when the Health Service Executive (HSE) was the victim of a Cyber Attack by Conti, a sophisticated, financially-motivated criminal gang.

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ISMRM: Technologist inexperience leads to MRI accidents

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A group led by Miho Uemura, PhD, of Sapporo Medical University Hospital in Japan found that half of reports describing MRI accidents were submitted by technologists with less than a year of MR imaging experience. "In

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Helping Our Ultrasound Client Find Success Alongside Larger-scale Hospitals & Imaging Centers

Direct Radiology

When Direct Radiology was founded in 2012, its mission was clear: provide all customers with high quality 24/7/365 teleradiology services and support by focusing on relationship building and mutual trust.

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Tributes pour in for CT pioneer Willi Kalender

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Achenbach, who has been chair of cardiology at the University of Erlangen since 2012, said he has always been deeply impressed by how much Kalender cared about the clinical applications of his contributions to CT. Willi Kalender, PhD. Courtesy of National Academy of Engineering.

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