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Radiologists Must Monitor Novel Alzheimer’s Treatment Side Effect

Imaging Technology

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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WBCT Indication Series: End Stage Ankle Arthritis

CurveBeam AI

Radiographs demonstrated tibiotalar arthritis as well as adjacent-joint arthritis. Postoperative Assessment 52 yo with post-traumatic degenerative joint disease of the ankle. His clinical interests include ankle arthritis, neuropathic disease, forefoot reconstruction, and deformity. (1) 2021 Feb;42(2):200214.

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WBCT Indications Series: Midfoot Arthritis

CurveBeam AI

The most common etiology is posttraumatic degeneration, but primary degeneration and inflammatory diseases can also result in osteoarthritis of the midfoot joints.​ However, the severity of deformity and involved joints were difficult to determine on plain radiographs alone. 2021 Jun;42(6):757-767. Epub 2021 Jan 27.

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Type 3 Cuboid Fracture

Global Radiology CME

A) Dorsoplantar radiograph of the foot demonstrating an isolated fracture of the cuboid with possible extension into the tarsometatarsal joint. (B) B) Medial oblique radiograph of the foot demonstrating an isolated fracture of the cuboid. Radiographic evidence can support the diagnosis. Trauma in a 8 year old female.

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Capsule Retention Following Capsule Endoscopy

Global Radiology CME

Frontal abdomen radiograph demonstrates foreign body consistent with capsule endoscopy device (pill cam) in descending colon. Capsule Retention and Risk Factors: Capsule endoscopy is used for evaluating small-bowel disorders, such as bleeds and Crohn disease.[ What are the important findings in this case. World J Gastroenterol.

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The DINAMO Study: Efficacy and Safety of Non-Antibiotic Outpatient Treatment in Mild Acute Diverticulitis

REBEL EM

Annals of Surgery, 2021. The use of a radiographic scoring system to determine disease severity may not appropriately correlate with symptom severity nor likelihood of acute complication. The Paper : Mora-LĂłpez, L. Efficacy and Safety of Nonantibiotic Outpatient Treatment in Mild Acute Diverticulitis (DINAMO Study).

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Adapting to a new way of treating

The British Institute of Radiology

Increasingly, it offers patients the opportunity to enjoy relatively long periods of disease control where previously they would have been considered for palliative treatments. MRIdian sits within our SABR offering, which is run by a specialist team of oncologists, physicists, dosimetrists, and radiographers.