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PET predicts adverse events in heart disease patients

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PET imaging with nitrogen-13 (N-13) ammonia radiotracer can help predict major adverse cardiac events in patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD), according to a study published May 30 in Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging. Patients underwent the scans between January 2017 and January 2021. The full study is available here.

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Interstitial lung abnormalities linked to respiratory disease risk

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CT imaging shows that severe acute respiratory disease events can be caused by quantitative interstitial abnormalities (QIA) -- that is, small irregularities that don't necessarily meet diagnostic criteria for advanced pulmonary diseases but show up on CT exams over time, a study published April 30 in Radiology has reported.

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AI-enhanced cardiac CT could help curb cardiovascular events

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Researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles are among those monitoring the clinical and investigational role of AI in advanced cardiac CT imaging. Certain applications are progressing faster than others, however. Researchers provided the resulting risk scores to doctors for 744 patients.

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Beware risk of adverse events associated with GBCAs

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To make the situation more complicated, not all possible adverse events from GBCAs are noted in drug packaging, wrote a team led by Lu Wang , PhD, of Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital in Yantai, China. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first GBCA in 1998, and ever since, this class of drugs has been used with MRI to diagnose disease.

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Lung Abnormality Progression Linked to Acute Respiratory Disease in Smokers

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milla1cf Fri, 05/24/2024 - 07:00 May 24, 2024 — Smokers who have small abnormalities on their CT scans that grow over time have a greater likelihood of experiencing acute respiratory disease events, according to a new study published today in Radiology , a journal of the Radiological Society of North America ( RSNA ).

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Enlarged Lymph Nodes on Screening Mammograms Predict Cardiometabolic Disease, Cardiovascular Risk

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milla1cf Fri, 05/10/2024 - 08:10 May 10, 2024 — According to the Summa Cum Laude Award-Winning Online Poster presented during the 124th ARRS Annual Meeting , fat-enlarged axillary nodes on screening mammograms can predict high cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, Type 2 diabetes (T2DM), and hypertension (HTN). Rubino et al.

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Dartmouth event bats around promise, shortcomings of AI in healthcare

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Langlotz's laboratory investigates the use of deep neural networks and other machine-learning technologies to detect disease and eliminate diagnostic errors through analysis of medical images and clinical notes. Photo courtesy of Dartmouth.