AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2025

The findings suggest that this high-risk group isn't getting the preventive care it needs which could translate into worse disease outcomes, according to a team led by Sushmita Gordhandas, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. There were more breast MRI exam denials in 2021 compared to 2020 (p=0.044).

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AuntMinnie

JULY 2, 2024

Electronic cigarettes entered the market in 2007, and, as of 2021, had become the second most used tobacco product among American adults, the group noted. In 2021, the task force expanded the pool of eligible individuals by lowering the screening start age from 55 to 50 and smoking pack years from 30 to 20.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The researchers categorized the chemotherapeutic response of study participants by either responders including complete remission and partial remission, and nonresponders including stable disease and progressive disease. In total, the group included data collected between 2018 and 2021 for 67 patients.

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Imaging Technology

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

A large study, needed for FDA clearance, demonstrated that the use of icobrain aria significantly increases the accuracy of ARIA assessments by radiologists and hence allows for safer use of new amyloid-beta targeting therapies for Alzheimer’s disease patients.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 28, 2025

To address the knowledge gap, the group analyzed data from men who underwent gallium-68 (Ga-68) PSMA-11 PET/CT scans before and after radiotherapy at their institution between November 2016 and October 2021 as part of a prospective clinical trial. The full study is available here.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 17, 2024

Cardiac PET MPI has emerged as a key tool for diagnosing and managing patients with cardiovascular diseases, especially coronary artery disease, yet overall it remains underutilized in the U.S., Strategies to increase the use of cardiac PET myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) in the U.S. the authors noted.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 13, 2023

El Homsi's group compared the two MRI protocols for this indication via a study that included 195 patients with primary colorectal cancer and liver metastases who were diagnosed between January 2012 and December 2021. response category 0.68 Detection of new lesions 0.49

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AuntMinnie

MAY 20, 2024

The radiotracer was developed by French biomarker firm Zionexa, which GE HealthCare acquired in May 2021. F-18 FES-PET was approved in May 2020 for detecting ER-positive lesions in patients with recurrent or metastatic breast cancer.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 29, 2024

For instance, if an LMM is asked to summarize a treatment paradigm for a disease to guide a ministry of health in a low-income country, it might reproduce an approach that is appropriate only in a high-income context, the organization suggested.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Moreover, the approach could help detect disease that other effective prostate cancer PET radiotracers may miss, said Heying Duan, MD, a nuclear medicine research scientist at Stanford University, during a November 26 scientific session. Patients were eligible if they were older than 18 and had rising blood levels of PSA ( ≥ 0.2

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 4, 2024

She and colleagues assessed the performance of this type of protocol in women at high risk for breast cancer via a study that included 236 shortened breast MRI exams performed between 2018 and 2021. Four readers blinded to patients' prior imaging, history, and disease outcomes reviewed the scans. Two radiologists reviewed the cases.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

S3A-SPBR-7 | Learning Center Compared with ultrasound or MRI used alone to diagnose breast diseases, a combined model of both modalities based on radiomics more accurately identifies breast conditions, according to a poster to be displayed Sunday morning. Sunday, December 1 | 11:45 a.m.-12:15 12:15 p.m. |

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 19, 2024

Lung cancer screening with low-dose CT (LDCT) has been shown to reduce mortality rates from the disease. The findings were published August 19 in Annals of Internal Medicine.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 8, 2024

Both FUO and IUO can be caused by a wide range of pathological processes, from malignancies, infections, and granulomatous and inflammatory diseases, to miscellaneous causes. Inflammation of unknown origin (IUO) is defined as prolonged and perplexing inflammation with temperatures below 38.3 °C.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 10, 2024

states that tend to have higher mortality rates of the disease, American Cancer Society (ACS) researchers have reported. of men and women eligible for lung cancer screening underwent it, despite a 2021 expansion of the pool of eligible individuals. When the U.S.

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Imaging Technology

AUGUST 2, 2023

milla1cf Wed, 08/02/2023 - 19:58 August 2, 2023 — An accepted manuscript published in the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) found that deploying a radiomic-based model with T2-weighted MRI data could increase diagnostic accuracy for pediatric Crohn disease (CD). Dillman et al.’s

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The growth began shortly after the American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association's (AHA) committee on clinical practice guidelines issued its Guideline for the Evaluation and Diagnosis of Chest Pain in October 2021. If the CCTA exam is negative, the patient can be sent home and treated as an outpatient.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The number of inappropriate requests for lumbar spine MRI exams has dropped by 50% due to local guidelines on Appropriateness Criteria for Use of Imaging Technology (ACUITy) formulated in 2019-2021, and chest x-ray guidelines have helped to eradicate pre-enrolment x-rays for asymptomatic young people entering local universities.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Chen, MD, both of UC San Diego Health in California, adding that in a 2021 survey, 71% of radiologists said they had been sued. "The majority of radiologists will face litigation in their careers," noted Luke Michael Wojdyla, a second-year radiology resident, and radiologist James Y.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 1, 2024

To address this knowledge gap, the authors pooled data from 281 patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma from two clinical trials conducted between 2004 and 2021. Among cases with hypoxia-negative disease before CRT, no patients experienced distant metastases. among those without it.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 14, 2023

When information-blocking provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act took effect in 2021, providers faced the need to make test results -- including radiology reports -- accessible to patients at the same time they were available to referring physicians. felt negative; and 9.3% felt positive. Hailey Choi, MD, of UCSF.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 6, 2024

The FAI score is one way to capture inflammatory risk beyond the current clinical risk stratification and CCTA interpretation, particularly among patients without obstructive [coronary artery disease], according to Chan, Antoniades, and colleagues. An AI-calculated FAI score can detect and measure vascular inflammation on CCTA exams.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 23, 2024

Hartman joined Cleerly in 2021 and will drive the company's sales and strategic business plan. Founded in 2017, Cleerly supports comprehensive phenotyping of coronary artery disease, as determined from advanced noninvasive CT imaging. Cleerly's CRO, Jim Hartman, has become the company's CCO.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 12, 2024

This study included imaging from 143 patients with active abdominopelvic cancer and 64 patients without any active cancer who underwent whole-body PET/CT scans at Osaka University Hospital between January 2020 and August 2021. Extending the study to other institutions is an important future task, they wrote. “We

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 8, 2024

Because factors such as financial distress have been linked to higher mortality rates among patients with cancer -- in part because people may not get the screening exams they need and thus present with more advanced disease, wrote a team led by Samilia Obeng-Gyasi, MD, of the Ohio State University in Columbus. Of the total study cohort, 10.6%

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Time-dependent diffusion MRI-based microstructural mapping helps predict breast cancer molecular subtypes and treatment response in women with the disease, researchers have reported. The research included 408 women with breast cancer who underwent a time-dependent diffusion MRI exam between February 2021 and May 2023.

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JULY 1, 2024

Balkan Med J 2021. Balkan Med J 2021. Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation for Acute Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Prehospital and Emergency Settings. Cureus 2021. AVAPS: 0.07 P = 0.015 PaCO2 Excretion in 1 st Hour BPAP S/T: 4.75 AVAPS: 10.20 AVAPS: 0.07 AVAPS: 10.20

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Imaging Technology

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This interest may be attributed in part to a 2021 decision by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) to give cardiac CT angiography (CCTA) its highest recommendation as a frontline test to evaluate patients with stable and acute chest pain who have no history of coronary artery disease.¹

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Imaging Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2023

While neuromelanin was first described in the 19 th century, researchers have elucidated its possible role as a biomarker for neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease in the last two decades. Cassidy, “it allows us to obtain potentially useful adjunctive information about many other diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, and PTSD.”

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AuntMinnie

JULY 22, 2024

Adding dynamic CT perfusion (DynCTP) to cardiac CT angiography (CCTA) shortens time to diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD), according to research presented at the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) meeting in Washington, DC.

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Imaging Technology

MAY 22, 2023

milla1cf Mon, 05/22/2023 - 13:16 May 22, 2023 — New research finds that the brains of otherwise healthy military personnel who are exposed to explosions show an abnormal brain accumulation of amyloid-beta protein—a protein that plays a role in the development of Alzheimer’s disease.

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Imaging Technology

MAY 6, 2024

Neuroscience, particularly in the study of psychiatric diseases and neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s, has been constrained by technological and biological limitations, leaving many aspects of the brain structure and functionality largely unexplored, noted GE Healthcare in a written statement about the unveiling.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

billion in 2021 and is expected to register a. The global diagnostic imaging services market was valued at USD 40.80

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2024

His research interests include using structural and functional MRI -- particularly ultrahigh-field, 7-tesla MRI -- to map brain microstructure and develop neurosurgical treatment of brain tumors, epilepsy, and neurodegenerative and movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and dystonia.

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Imaging Technology

AUGUST 31, 2023

Alzheimer disease is a progressive, irreversible brain disorder that slowly degrades memory and cognitive function. While previous treatment methods focused on addressing Alzheimer disease symptoms, recent approvals of monoclonal antibodies have provided a path to target the underlying disease itself. In June 2021, the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

There have been recent advances in endovascular treatments of peripheral arterial disease (PAD), specifically atherectomy.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 6, 2024

SCCT 2021 Expert Consensus Document on Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography: A Report of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. 2021 May-Jun;15(3):192-217. Talk with your Philips representative to learn more about AI and cardiac scanning or click here to download our latest whitepaper. J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr.

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