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Pre-Hospital Antibiotics in Sepsis?

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PMID: 35387313 Clinical Question: Do prehospital antibiotics impact 28 day mortality, length of stay in the hospital and ICU length of stay for patients triggering sepsis compared to usual care (No prehospital antibiotics)? to 0.97; p = 0.02 to 2.07; p = 0.91 to 12.33; p = 0.26 to 0.97; p = 0.02 to 2.07; p = 0.91 to 12.33; p = 0.26

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Microflow imaging useful in diagnosing breast lesions

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Researchers led by Runlan Luo, MD, from the Chinese PLA General Hospital in Beijing found that this method along with high-definition microflow imaging outperforms color Doppler flow imaging in diagnosing breast lesions. High-definition microflow imaging meanwhile has been touted as an advanced version of the original method.

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MRI reveals functional brain alterations associated with depression

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Those who had been identified with Hospital ICD-10 diagnosis codes F32 and F33 and antidepressant use had the most alterations in these measures. "We The team found that, across all depression criteria, study participants with lifetime depression showed consistent decreases in fALFF, LCOR, and GCOR but not in gray matter volume.

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E-cigarette users less likely to undergo lung cancer screening

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Emerging research suggests that e-cigarettes contain definite and probable carcinogens and cause similar cancer associated gene deregulations as combustible tobacco," the group noted. Individuals who use e-cigarettes are less likely to undergo lung cancer screening (LCS), researchers have reported.

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ASTRO and ESTRO Issue Clinical Guideline on Local Therapy for Oligometastatic Lung Cancer

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The guideline emphasizes the need for a multidisciplinary team approach to guide treatment decisions for oligometastatic disease, a description for cancer that reaches a state in which the patient has a small number of metastases in addition to a primary tumor. The guideline is published in Practical Radiation Oncology.

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Can PET help diagnose neurosarcoidosis?

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To date, F-18 FDG PET findings are currently not taken into account when making a diagnosis for possible, probable, or definite neurosarcoidosis,” noted lead author Jessy Chen, MD, of Charité - Berlin University Medicine, and colleagues. The article was published January 25 in Neurological Research and Practice.

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PET Scans Reveal ‘smoldering’ Inflammation in patients with Multiple sclerosis

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Microglia are immune cells in the brain that are thought to have a role in MS disease progression but cannot be seen by a routine MRI. Just as a smoldering fire can burn slowly without smoke or flame, smoldering inflammation may linger in patients with MS, driving disease progression and symptoms, even when it cannot be assessed on MRI.