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REBEL Core Cast 107.0 – Vertebral Osteomyelitis

REBEL EM

Take Home Points Clinical presentation is very nonspecific; evaluate all patients presenting with back pain for infectious risk factors. MRI is key to diagnosis, obtain this imaging in all patients who raise clinical suspicion Patients with hemodynamic instability and neurologic compromise warrant empiric antibiotics.

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AuntMinnie 2007: Gadolinium: A 'necessary factor' in the development of NSF?

AuntMinnie

Imagine going in for a diagnostic MRI scan and coming out with a progressive, irreversible, and potentially fatal disease. It certainly doesn't help matters that the disease has been linked to gadolinium-based contrast agents, a ubiquitous tool in the MR armamentarium. In 2006 the U.S. Louis hospital.

Disease 116
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The rise of theranostics: Part 4 -- Women's theranostics on the horizon

AuntMinnie

Gayton oversees clinical operations at Precirix and serves as the company's chief development officer. With CAM-H2, we engineered the protein to bind to a different epitope on HER2 to other approved therapies, so the option of combining CAM-H2 with other therapies is definitely an opportunity."

Disease 105