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Can PET help diagnose neurosarcoidosis?

AuntMinnie

The article was published January 25 in Neurological Research and Practice. F-18 FDG-PET is an established approach for diagnosing inflammation based on its ability to visualize increased cellular glucose metabolism, and the researchers hypothesized that it could be useful in patients with neurosarcoidosis.

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Bone scans may be viable for diagnosing calciphylaxis

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Technetium-99m (Tc-99m) methyl diphosphonate (MDP) bone scans are a potentially viable noninvasive option for diagnosing calciphylaxis, according to a team at the University of Massachusetts in Worcester, MA. and Canada, which reported the sensitivity of bone scans for diagnosing calciphylaxis to be 62.5%, 89%, and 94.4%.

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Lymphoscintigraphy underused in the U.S. to diagnose lymphedema

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Lymphoscintigraphy (LSG) is recommended but seldom used to diagnose lymphedema in real-world settings in the U.S., The full article is available here. according to a study published on December 14 the Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders.

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How Good is Ultrasound at Diagnosing PTA?

REBEL EM

Article: Kim DJ et al. Question: How well does the US perform in diagnosing PTA compared to CT, needle aspiration, or Incision and Drainage? Furthermore, another small retrospective study found that approximately 30% of patients with CT-diagnosed PTA lacked purulence on drainage attempts (Eliason 2023). Acad Emerg Med.

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PET/MRI may help diagnose fevers of unknown origin

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PET/MRI imaging shows promise in diagnosing fevers or inflammation of unknown origin and may have advantages over PET/CT, according to a study published January 3 in the European Journal of Radiology. The full article is available here.

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FAPI-PET outperforms FDG-PET in diagnosing pancreatic cancer

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F-18 FAPI-PET/CT is superior to F-18 FDG-PET/CT for diagnosing and staging patients with pancreatic cancer, according to a study published January 4 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. The full article can be found here. Additional studies are required to validate the prognostic value of F-18 FAPI-04,” the group concluded.

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Multi-channel deep learning model diagnoses the cause of LVH

European Society of Radiology: AI

The fully automatic myocardium segmentation and spatial-temporal morphology feature-based LVH etiology diagnosis deep learning framework model was able to show a favorable and robust performance in diagnosing the cause of LVH, which could be used as a noninvasive tool, thus helping with clinical decisions.