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Researchers offer age-specific dose estimator for fluoroscopy exams

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A team of researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital has developed an age-specific dose catalog for estimating radiation exposure to children from diagnostic and interventional radiology fluoroscopy procedures. mSv for interventional radiology (24 procedure types) and 0.001 to 0.44

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The Society of Interventional Radiology 2024 Gold Medals and Charles T. Dotter Lecture Delivered at Annual Meeting

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milla1cf Mon, 03/25/2024 - 06:00 March 25, 2024 — The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) presented its highest honor, the SIR Gold Medal , to Fred T. These awards acknowledge distinguished and extraordinary service to SIR or to the specialty of interventional radiology. MD ; Albert A. Nemcek, Jr.,

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Meet the Minnies 2024 finalists

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Louis School of Medicine and completed his residency and a neuroradiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He has contributed chapters to textbooks such as First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 and Core Radiology: A Visual Approach to Diagnostic Imaging and is an editor at Radiopaedia.org. Dmitry Beyder.

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Salary differences narrow between academic, nonacademic radiologists

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As more and more radiology practices consolidate and assimilate into hospitals and healthcare networks, "the divide between academic and nonacademic practice has blurred," the authors wrote. Between 2014 to 2023, median total compensation for diagnostic radiology increased by 18% overall (1.9%

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Hysterectomies may be averted with UAE

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During a March 19 media briefing held by the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR), resident Younes Jahangiri, MD, and interventional radiologist James Morrison, MD, presented a retrospective review of 66 patients (median age, 31) who underwent UAE for uncontrolled postpartum hemorrhage at their hospital between 2014 and 2022.

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Y-90 radioembolization safe in people living with HIV

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The study is the first to assess outcomes of the procedure in people living with HIV, as these patients are often excluded due to immunodeficiency concerns, noted lead author Kartikeya Menon, MD, of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. The study was published January 10 in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology.