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AuntMinnie 2020: COVID-19 can be seen on CT scans outside the chest

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Topping the list in 2020 was a story on how patients with COVID-19 may initially present with non-respiratory symptoms. New articles will be published each Monday until our official anniversary at RSNA 2024. In the early stages of the global pandemic, articles on COVID-19 were very popular amongst AuntMinnie members.

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RadNet to launch retail mammography clinic at Delaware Walmart

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Imaging services provider RadNet will launch a mammography screening clinic December 8 at the Walmart Supercenter in Milford, Delaware. The MammogramNow clinics will deploy AI technology for mammography screening and interpreting mammograms developed by DeepHealth AI, a software firm RadNet acquired in 2020.

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Clinical value of some knee and hip MRIs questioned

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While MRI-detected biomarkers may serve a beneficial role for people with hip and knee pain, the modality's clinical utility may be limited in patients over the age of 45 in patients with advanced osteoarthritis, according to an article published in the American Journal of Roentgenology ( AJR ). Erin Alaia, MD.

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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. The study included 3,326 patients who underwent 5,150 LCS exams between January 2015 and June 2020. versus 2.4%.

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Clinical Conundrums: How Long Should We Monitor After Giving IM Epinephrine for Anaphylaxis?

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Clinical Scenario: A 15-year-old male with a history of multiple food allergies presents after ingestion of a sandwich during a school gathering. Updated Anaphylaxis Guidelines (2020) References Lieberman P. Biphasic Anaphylaxis: Review of Incidence, Clinical Predictors, and Observation Recommendations. Read More: 1.

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Radiologists are reading more cardiac CT exams, but not cardiac MRI

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And it appears that radiologists are reading more cardiac CT exams, but not cardiac MRI studies, presenter Mustafa Al-Ogaili, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, AZ, told session attendees. The investigators found that 38, 806 cardiac CT exams were performed in 2013 and 112,909 in 2020, an increase of 191%. Cardiologists 49.2%

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Nuance and Epic Expand Ambient Documentation Integration Across the Clinical Experience with DAX Express for Epic

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DAX Express is a workflow-integrated, AI-powered clinical documentation application that is the first to combine Nuance’s proven conversational and ambient AI with the newest and most capable AI model, GPT4, in the Azure OpenAI Service.

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