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AuntMinnie 2015: CMS issues final CT lung cancer screening approval

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Our top article in 2015 reported on the momentous CMS decision on CT lung cancer screening reimbursement. healthcare owing to the vast scope of the disease. New articles will be published each Monday until our official anniversary at RSNA 2024. In a major victory for individuals at high risk for lung cancer, the U.S.

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CT imaging markers flag diabetes, cardiometabolic disease risk

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"The results are encouraging as they demonstrate the potential of expanding the role of CT imaging from conventional disease diagnosis to opportunistic proactive screening," study senior author Seungho Ryu, MD, PhD, also of Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, said in a statement released by the RSNA.

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Clinical practice LCS program finds more disease than NLST

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Over a five-year period, a clinical practice lung cancer screening program at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC, found more disease than did the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST), researchers have reported. It also found more stage IV disease, wrote a team led by Kyle Lafata, PhD. versus 2.4%.

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Houston radiologist to pay $8.8M in fraud case

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According to the claim, beginning in 2015, Andrew Gomes , MD, allegedly offered physicians who invested in his clinics returns in dividends if they referred patients for treatment of peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani in an August 20 statement.

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REBEL Core Cast 107.0 – Vertebral Osteomyelitis

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Most common organism is Staph Aureus (36-67% of cases) ( Boody 2015 ). The degree of elevation does not predict disease severity. Other pathogens include: E. ESR and CRP are sensitive, yet not specific.

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CT-FFR shows how smoking affects heart volume-to-myocardial mass ratio

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We found that] current and former smoking were independently associated with lower [V/M] in participants with coronary artery disease," the group noted. But the effect smoking has on volume-to-myocardial mass ratio has not been thoroughly established.

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REBEL Core Cast 85.0 – Superficial Venous Thrombosis

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Cosmi 2015 ) Risk factors of complications of SVT (such as propagation of clot into deep veins) include male gender, history of VTE, cancer, SVT in a non-varicose vein, large SVT >5 cm, or SVT involving the sapheno-femoral junction (SFJ). Risk factors for the development of SVT are similar to those of VTE.

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