AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

PET imaging using a newly developed radiotracer has identified different patterns of brain tau pathology over time in early-onset versus late-onset Alzheimer’s disease patients, according to a study published February 1 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. The team prospectively enrolled 52 participants (age, 69.7 ± 8.4 years;

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 21, 2025

Supraclavicular lymph nodes, for instance, are lymph nodes found above the clavicle, and there is a paucity of literature on the prevalence of disease at these sites in patients with prostate cancer, the authors added. For the analysis, the researchers included 240 patients who underwent scans for primary staging of newly diagnosed disease.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 11, 2024

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) can improve locoregional therapy for treating metastatic disease of the liver, according to early study results presented April 10 at UltraCon. Furthermore, metastatic disease to the liver is common in this area due to hepatic dual blood supply. It consists of about 10% of primary liver cancers.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 12, 2023

ChatGPT-4 outperformed human clinicians in determining pretest and post-test disease probability after a negative test result involving chest radiographs and mammograms, according to a research letter published December 11 in JAMA Network Open.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 20, 2024

A predictive model combining multiple ultrasonic parameters could discriminate between different liver diseases in a study published March 19 in Radiology. These findings are important for noninvasive assessment of the MAFLD disease process,” the Liu team wrote. The results have been promising when compared to liver biopsy.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 15, 2024

Deuterium metabolic imaging (DMI) can reveal impaired brain glucose metabolism in patients with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study published July 16 in Radiology. Khan and colleagues recruited 10 participants with Alzheimer's disease (mean age, 68 years old, eight males) and nine cognitively healthy control participants.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 6, 2025

Postoperative MRI surveillance appears to lower the odds of advanced second breast cancer in women with a personal history of the disease, researchers have reported. "In The research included 3,688 women who underwent breast cancer surgery between January 2009 and December 2014.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 23, 2025

In a recent PET study with unexpected results, patients infected with herpes had fewer signs of brain deposits associated with Alzheimers disease than uninfected patients, a group in France has reported. The study was published January 18 in Scientific Reports. The median age of the group was 74 years old. The full study is available here.

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Health Imaging

MAY 3, 2024

Machine learning models could help create a more standardized, reproducible and efficient way of grading Crohn’s disease severity in the small bowel based on CT imaging.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 31, 2024

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. Nonetheless, the findings are promising, they suggested. The full study is available here.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 2, 2024

CHICAGO -- Characterizing an individual's type of body fat using body MRI can help predict Alzheimer's disease risk up to 20 years before symptoms manifest, according to research results presented December 2 at the RSNA meeting.

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Health Imaging

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Ron Blankstein, MD, professor of radiology, Harvard Medical School, explains the use of artificial intelligence to detect heart disease in non-cardiac CT exams.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Specifically, women with BACs on their mammogram may be at an increased risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

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Radiology Business

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Yet, radiologists have had almost zero involvement in shaping medical knowledge about the disease. Imaging plays an essential role in addressing hepatic steatosis.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

However, mpMRI misses about 10% of cases, typically in patients with lower-grade disease and in patients with cribriform pattern disease, a subtype much more likely to recur after surgery or radiation therapy, he noted. It also includes a well-established grading system that accurately correlates with histopathology.

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Health Imaging

MAY 23, 2024

Up to 30% of patients have metastatic disease by the time they are initially diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma, making accurate staging a critical element of treatment planning.

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Health Imaging

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Researchers are hopeful that uptake of the molecular SPECT imaging agent will help providers more ably monitor disease progression.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Photon-counting CT may serve as an alternative to MRI for assessing liver fat in patients with fatty liver disease, according to an article published September 24 in Radiology. The disease affects up to 24% of the population in the U.S. and can lead to cirrhosis and even cancer if left untreated. (A) in the MASLD cohort.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 7, 2024

Kuo, who led development of imaging guidelines used to develop Lu-177 PSMA-617 ( Pluvicto , Novartis), noted that the theranostics treatment is approved for use in advanced stages of the disease, but that trials are underway to test it in patients at earlier stages. “We last year for Alzheimer's disease.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Some people with neurologic diseases experience a new onset of creative behavior and show specific patterns of damage that align with our creativity circuit," Kutsche said in a statement released by Mass General Brigham. The findings were published February 13 in JAMA Network Open.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 26, 2024

Understanding the mechanics of flow artifacts on CT or CT angiography (CTA) and how these artifacts are created is key to better disease diagnosis, according to a review published April 25 in RadioGraphics. In the review, a team led by Caroline Robb, MD, of Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 13, 2025

Ultimately, ER-positive breast cancer represents a large subset of the disease, and endocrine therapies remain foundational in treatment, the researchers noted.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

PET, CT, and MRI use for assessing coronary artery disease increased in Medicare patients from 2018 to 2022, while SPECT and stress echocardiography declined over the same period, researchers have reported. Taken together, these findings call for efforts to address barriers impeding wider uptake of PET,” the group wrote.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 10, 2024

We observed widespread increases in global connectivity in individuals with [the disease]," Mehta said in a statement released by the RSNA. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics estimates that there were 81,083 overdose deaths involving opioids in the U.S. last year. "We

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It's also a possibility that the disease mechanism that impairs pulmonary gas exchange also leads to higher brain perfusion through downstream vascular injury in both lung and brain," Staab said. "This relationship could be a compensatory mechanism where lower lung function is compensated by higher cardiac output and higher brain perfusion.

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Health Imaging

AUGUST 18, 2024

Compared to standard hip-to-waist ratio measurements and BMI, the algorithm identifies significantly more instances of metabolic syndrome and its severity in individual patients.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Our scans show where there is patchy ventilation in patients with lung disease, and show us which parts of the lung improve with treatment," Thelwall said in a statement released by the university. The gas can be safely inhaled and exhaled by patients; MRI exams then show where in the lungs the gas has reached, according to the group.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

During a mean follow-up period of 10 years, disease progression was found in 11 of 179 patients (6.1%), including lymph node metastasis in four patients (2.2%), newly developed tumors in six patients (3.3%), and persistent tumor in one patient (0.6%), according to the findings. The 10-year disease-free survival was 93.9%.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Our research is showing that we are missing opportunities to diagnose disease early, Monticciolo told AuntMinnie.com. Were concerned that when you look at these age groups,it (rates of metastatic disease) is very high for women under 40 and I think it will only get worse for older women. We encourage women to get screened.

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Health Imaging

JANUARY 27, 2025

Researchers with the University of Virginia Arlington are working to develop anew way of analyzing fat content around the heart.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 24, 2025

experience a higher incidence of breast cancer from aggressive molecular subtypes, such as triple-negative disease. To compare, the triple-negative disease incidence remained unchanged among non-Hispanic white women. Previous reports indicate that Black and Hispanic women in the U.S. per year from 2010 to 2019); and Black women (1.4%

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 11, 2025

and radiology has learned much since then, according to experts who directly dealt with the diseases impact. Rengen added that transparency and honesty around messaging to patients and colleagues are important in keeping people safe from infectious diseases like COVID. Our true north is putting our patients first.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 7, 2025

A PET study has revealed that women over the age of 70 who took menopausal hormone therapy (HT) more than a decade before have faster brain tau accumulation -- a key indicator of Alzheimers disease. The findings may inform [Alzheimers disease] risk discussions relating to womens reproductive health and treatment, the group wrote.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 4, 2025

Preliminary studies suggest the tracer may also be effective in patients with earlier, more treatable stages of the disease, yet most of these studies have been retrospective and subject to a large risk of bias, the authors noted.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The study results suggest that radiologists must keep in mind that patients with COVID-19 can initially present with symptoms other than respiratory ones but still have the disease, wrote a team led by Dr. Rydhwana Hossain of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. "In Images courtesy of the RSNA.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Of these, 1,088 (both CT and MRI exams) were used in a training set that included segmentations of 80 anatomic structures commonly used for measuring volume, characterizing disease, surgical planning, and opportunistic screening, while 55 (MRI exams only) were included in an internal test set. for 13 anatomic structures).

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 7, 2025

The Institutes and Centershave their own budgets and research agendas, often focusing on specific diseases or body systems,the NIH said. The NIH's proposed consolidation would eliminate the Institutes and Centers-based study sections so that CSR would conduct all first-level review of applications.

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