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Deep-Learning Chest Radiograph Model Predicts Mortality for Community-Acquired Pneumonia

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The deep learning (DL) model may guide clinical decision-making in the management of patients with CAP by identifying high-risk patients who warrant hospitalization and intensive treatment,” concluded first author Eui Jin Hwang, MD, PhD, from the department of radiology at Seoul National University College of Medicine in Korea. Hwang et al.

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Responding to a Ransomware Attack in Radiology

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Reading Time: 8 minutes read By Dr. Niall Sheehy, MB, MRCP, FFR RCSI, St James’s Hospital -Trinity College Dublin. In May 2021, St James’s Hospital in Dublin was one of 54 public hospitals affected when the Health Service Executive (HSE) was the victim of a Cyber Attack by Conti, a sophisticated, financially-motivated criminal gang.

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Lisfranc Fracture Dislocation

Global Radiology CME

A) AP radiograph of Lisfranc Fracture Dislocation demonstrates the circled “fleck sign” or Lisfranc ligament avulsion fracture fragment. (B) C) The lateral radiograph notes with a circle, the dorsal sub dislocation of the metatarsal base. Radiographs should be repeated after two weeks to ensure surgery is unnecessary.

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Susanna I. Lee, MD, PhD, Named Editor of New RSNA Open Access Journal

Imaging Technology

Specializing in abdominal radiology, Dr. Lee is chief of women’s imaging and officer of mentored research in the Department of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital ( MGH ) and associate professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School in Boston. “I The journal will be published in partnership with Oxford University Press.

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

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Annals of Surgery, 2021. Results: A total of 480 patients were enrolled 242 were randomized to the non-antibiotic group 238 were randomized into the group receiving antibiotic therapy There was NO STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT difference in hospitalizations. The Paper : Mora-López, L. difference, 95% CI 4.22

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Capsule Retention Following Capsule Endoscopy

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Frontal abdomen radiograph demonstrates foreign body consistent with capsule endoscopy device (pill cam) in descending colon. A prospective study of the utility of abdominal radiographs after capsule endoscopy for the diagnosis of capsule retention. 61-year-old male with abdominal pain 15 days after capsule endoscopy. doi: 10.3748/wjg.15.2401

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