Imaging Technology

JUNE 20, 2023

christine.book Tue, 06/20/2023 - 14:03 June 20, 2023 — Ascelia Pharma presented data from its Orviglance Hepatic Impairment study during the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR) 2023 annual meeting held June 14-16 in Valencia, Spain.

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Imaging Technology

JUNE 29, 2023

Authors of the study were Fan Yang and Joyita Dutta, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts; Matthew Maher and Richa Saxena, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. This has potential for broad diagnostic utility across many disease types, not only Alzheimer’s disease,” Dutta added.

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Imaging Technology

JUNE 26, 2023

christine.book Mon, 06/26/2023 - 12:46 June 26, 2023 — PET imaging with 68Ga-FAPI offers a feasible, reliable, and reproducible method for evaluating disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis, according to new research presented at the 2023 Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Annual Meeting. Monday, June 26, 2023 - 12:46

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Imaging Technology

AUGUST 21, 2023

has announced that findings from a groundbreaking study will be presented at the 2023 World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC 2023), to be held Sept. christine.book Mon, 08/21/2023 - 13:05 August 21, 2023 — A Seoul, South Korea-based provider of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, Lunit Inc. ,

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Ed itor's note: As part of the celebration of AuntMinnie.com's upcoming 25th anniversary, we're presenting 25 for 25 -- a series featuring our most popular content for each of the last 25 years. In 2013, our top article covered a decision by a New York City hospital to close its radiology residency program.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 13, 2025

Butterfly Network and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) are highlighting results from a study that investigated the impact of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) on hospital care. The findings were presented in December at the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging's EchoEuro-Imaging Conference in Berlin, Germany.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Also, women with high levels of unmet social needs were more likely to present with late-stage breast disease. One reason for this is that women living in disadvantaged neighborhoods continue to present with later-stage breast cancer. Social detriments of health have been explored for their role in contributing to health disparities.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A team led by Jack Scaife from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City found that children with these sociodemographics are more likely to present to hospitals that don’t use ultrasound to diagnose acute appendicitis. It also found that they are less likely to undergo ultrasound at hospitals that have ultrasound resources.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Elastography could help with treatment strategies for colorectal cancer patients, a study presented November 26 at the RSNA annual meeting found. Jae Seok Bae, MD, from Seoul National University Hospital presented research at RSNA showing the efficacy of shear-wave elastography in predicting chemotherapy response in colorectal patients.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 4, 2024

It also found that white children and children living in lower socioeconomic neighborhoods are more likely to visit hospitals with high concurrent imaging use. These findings indicate that hospital experience in ultrasound and patient socioeconomic factors are correlated to overimaging,” Scaife and colleagues wrote. respectively.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The use of both cardiac CT and cardiac MRI increased in the Medicare population over the past seven years, according to research presented November 29 at the RSNA meeting. The team tracked volumes by provider type (cardiologists, radiologists, and "other") and practice setting (hospital and nonhospital). Cardiologists 49.2%

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Health Imaging

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Fevers of unknown origin account for around 2% of hospitalizations and can present significant diagnostic challenges for providers.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Another way to reduce radiation to patients would be to scale back on adjacent x-ray imaging, says a group in Australia, which will present a study on Sunday suggesting that a vast majority of second scans of the upper and lower limbs have no new findings. The group notes that it is evaluating the model for implementation in four hospitals.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Patients with COVID-19 experience a higher incidence of anatomical changes at the cardiac level on pulmonary angio-CT, suggest findings presented February 29 at ECR 2024. Ana Filipa Colucas, MD, PhD, presents findings at ECR 2024 on anatomical changes in COVID-19 patients as observed on pulmonary angio-CT. mm,” Colucas said.

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Health Imaging

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Fevers of unknown origin account for around 2% of hospitalizations and can present significant diagnostic challenges for providers.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2025

In his presentation, Yi Dai, MD, PhD, from Peking University Shenzhen Hospital in China discussed the research results, showing that the deep-learning system achieved high marks in prospective testing and other tests.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) is effective for stroke patients who need to be transferred from hospitals where they are diagnosed to centers capable of performing the procedure, according to a study published February 8 in JAMA Network Open. Out of 352 enrolled patients (median age, 66.5

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REBEL EM

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Background: Patients with decreased level of consciousness due to alcohol, drugs, or medications commonly present to the ED. These patients can be at risk of vomiting and aspiration and often prompts clinicians to pursue definitive airway management to avoid pneumonia and other complications.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 27, 2023

While a top priority across all hospital types, improving MRI department workflow and productivity is the number one priority for hospitals with 200 beds or more. One strategy hospitals are using to achieve this goal is to leverage AI and machine learning software. Hospital (fixed) 7.2% Hospitals with mobile MRI 6.1

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REBEL EM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Bottom Line Up Top: Troponins should not be routinely sent in patients presenting with SVT. Clinical Scenario: A 44-year-old man presents with palpitations that started 45 minutes ago. This would seem to argue that troponin testing should be standard practice in those presenting with SVT regardless of symptoms. Cardiol Rev.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 7, 2024

This could indicate that non-hospital sites may have a more specific focus on PET/CT exams, compared to a more broad integrative focus across nuclear medicine in hospital sites. Want to share your knowledge of medical imaging? Click here to sign up for the IMV Survey panel today. 1033 to speak with a representative.

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REBEL EM

DECEMBER 23, 2024

saline affect hospital-free days by day 30? PMID: 39250114 Clinical Question: In adult patients admitted for a vaso-occlusive episode, does early fluid resuscitation with Lactated Ringer solution compared to 0.9%

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 21, 2024

Powering down idle interventional radiology (IR) imaging systems can substantially decrease carbon emissions and electricity costs, according to a group of researchers at University Hospital Basel in Switzerland. However, the practice of powering down interventional imaging systems on a daily basis at their hospital predated this study.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2024

Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT are rapidly being integrated into clinical practice, with several LLM-based pilot programs underway in hospitals and clinicians beginning to use ChatGPT to communicate with patients and draft clinical notes, according to the authors. prevalence estimates. I am a medical educator.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 22, 2024

and 83.6%, respectively, a team led by Thanatchawan Polvieng, MD, of Phramongkutklao Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, reported. The researchers found the following: Sarcopenia was present in 39 of 83 (47%) patients who underwent surgery for hepatocellular carcinoma. The results were published March 22 in American Surgeon.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

CHICAGO -- Quantitative MRI reveals how muscles in the neck are involved in primary headaches, according to research presented November 29 at the 2023 RSNA annual meeting.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 10, 2024

Diagnostic errors, including those from radiology among hospitalized adults who died or were transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU), are common, according to a study published January 8 in JAMA Internal Medicine. years in 29 hospitals. They included data from 2,428 patients with an average age of 63.9

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REBEL EM

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In non-PCI-capable hospitals this goal is not always achievable due to delays in transfer. Background: Primary PCI is the recommended reperfusion strategy in patients with STEMI and should be initiated within 2 hours after first medical contact. In these cases, thrombolysis is recommended to improve morbidity and mortality. Primary PCI: 95.7%

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Imaging Technology

MARCH 15, 2024

“Imaging surveillance rather than surgery is a reasonable approach for radial scars without atypia, particularly for those presenting as calcifications,” wrote coauthor Manisha Bahl, MD, MPH, from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The decision states that Saint Vincent Radiological Associates (SVRA) in Worcester had a contractual agreement with Saint Vincent Hospital to provide an on-call interventional radiologist to the hospital. Duane Brown was transferred to UMass Memorial Medical Center but died before the cholecystostomy could be performed.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 11, 2024

TORONTO – The radiopharmaceutical Pluvicto improves progression-free survival in patients with metastatic prostate cancer who haven’t undergone taxane therapy, according to research presented at the SNMMI meeting. Oliver Sartor, MD The study, which was awarded SNMMI’s Abstract of the Year award, shared data from the phase III PSMAfore trial.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 22, 2023

It also explored any associations between POCUS findings and respiratory support at 12 and 24 hours, maximum respiratory support during hospitalization, disposition, and hospital length of stay. The researchers included data from 82 infants aged 12 months or younger.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 12, 2024

Many women with early-stage HR+HER2- breast cancer and a negative presurgical axillary ultrasound can skip sentinel lymph node biopsy, a study presented April 11 at the American Society of Breast Surgeons Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL, found.

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Imaging Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This study, conducted at Capio S:t Göran Hospital in Sweden, reinforces the real-world impact of Lunit INSIGHT MMG, which has successfully replaced one of the two human readers in the hospital’s double-reading breast cancer screening protocol. tim.hodson Mon, 12/02/2024 - 11:22 Dec.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 6, 2024

A relatively simple toilet filtration system removes iodinated contrast agents from wastewater, according to research findings presented December 2 at the RSNA meeting. It's not effectively removed by current purification techniques, which presents a problem for drinking water, she said.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A team led by Elisabetta Giannotti, MD, from Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Cambridge, U.K., The study included 115 lobular carcinoma cases, of which 46 (40%) presented symptomatically and 69 were detected by screening. This concordance is important to confirm and corroborate the present independent conclusions,” the authors wrote.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Insight CXR has been used as an aid to help interpret all posterior-anterior and anterior-posterior chest x-rays at the authors’ hospital since March 2021, with the group continually evaluating its impact in clinical practice. Lesions were considered present when the software’s abnormality score exceeded 15%.

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