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Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Announces 2024 Fellows

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The SNMMI Fellowship was established in 2016 to recognize distinguished service to the society as well as exceptional achievement in the field of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. It is among the most prestigious formal recognitions available to long-time SNMMI members.

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Bleeding After Image-Guided Breast Biopsies: Discontinuing vs. Maintaining Antithrombotic Therapy

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“The findings support safety of continuing AT during breast core-needle biopsy (CNB),” wrote lead researcher Melissa Reichman, MD, of Weill Cornell Medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, adding that patients who maintain AT should be counseled regarding risk of bruise. Finally, bleeding events were compared among groups.

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Incomplete Imaging for Transient Ischemic Attack Emergencies Increases Stroke Risk

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Timpone, MD , from the department of radiology at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora. studied data from the 2016–2017 Medicare Standard Analytical Files, which contain 100% sample claims for Medicare beneficiaries. Timpone et al. Information was extracted via ICD-10 and CPT codes. 1.38]).

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Abbreviated MRI Supports Supplemental Dense Breast Screening

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Edmonds , MD, from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. s AJR accepted manuscript included patients with dense breasts, at otherwise average breast-cancer risk, who underwent AB-MR for supplemental screening between December 20, 2016 and May 10, 2023.

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StatRad Changing Lives, Improving Health Care in East Africa through Donated Image Sharing Solution

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SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA (PRWEB) JANUARY 21, 2016 StatRad, a leading provider of cloud-based medical image exchange technology and teleradiology services, is supporting critical diagnostic health services at Tenwek Hospital in rural western Kenya through donated RadConnect® software services.

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EVT appears underused in certain stroke patients

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hospitals between 2016 and 2020. In this study, patients hospitalized with ischemic stroke and cardiac intervention may be less than half as likely to receive EVT as those without cardiac intervention,” the group wrote. Yet data remain sparse on the use of EVT in these settings, the group noted. years old; 50.2%

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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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a University of Wisconsin spin-off company that was sold to Ethicon (Johnson & Johnson) in 2016, and Elucent Medical, Inc., Tan’s initial training in interventional radiology was in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at SGH, followed by a fellowship at Guy’s Hospital in London.