Photon-counting CT as good as MRI for evaluating hepatic steatosis Written By Medha Baranwal19 Feb 2023 8:00 PM ISTUSA: For the assessment of hepatic steatosis in obese patients, photon-counting CT (PCCT) performs just as well as MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), a...
MRI can be performed safely in patients with selected implantable cardiac devices Written By Jacinthlyn Sylvia18 Feb 2023 10:15 AM ISTNon-MRI conditional implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are able to appropriately detect and treat tachyarrhythmias after MRI, and no...
A disturbing discovery about commonly used contrast agent in MRI scans Written By Isra Zaman18 Feb 2023 9:45 AM ISTIn a new study published in Scientific Reports, a team led by Brent Wagner, MD, MS, associate professor in the UNM Department of Internal Medicine,...
Breast-conserving surgery with or without irradiation does not impact overall survival in early breast cancer: NEJM Written By Medha Baranwal18 Feb 2023 9:00 AM ISTUK: In older women with early breast cancer, radiotherapy omission has no adverse effect on distant recurrence as the first event or overall survival,...
Arterioportal fistula with hepatic artery pseudoaneurysm: A rare complication Written By Dr. Nandita Mohan17 Feb 2023 9:00 AM ISTHepatic arterial injury can be seen in approximately 1.3-8% of percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage manifesting as active extravasation,...
Chest CT reveals lung abnormalities in COVID-19 patients as late as two years Written By Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli15 Feb 2023 8:00 PM ISTChina: Persistent lung abnormalities were seen on chest CT in patients two years after COVID-19, linked with decreased diffusion pulmonary function...
New screening tool helps doctors diagnose more people with COPD Written By Isra Zaman15 Feb 2023 9:30 AM ISTA new tool shows promise in helping primary care physicians identify adults with undiagnosed chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according...
Radiomics to predict heart attacks Written By Isra Zaman15 Feb 2023 9:15 AM ISTResearchers are using an approach called radiomics to predict future cardiac events like heart attacks, according to a study published in Radiology....
AI improves lung nodule detection on chest x-rays Written By Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli14 Feb 2023 10:00 AM ISTIn a pioneering, randomized controlled study evaluating the effect of artificial intelligence (AI)-based software in real clinical practice,...
MIT and Caltech engineers demonstrate Ingestible sensor that could help doctors pinpoint GI difficulties Written By Isra Zaman14 Feb 2023 9:00 AM ISTGI motility disorders, which affect about 35 million Americans, can occur in any part of the digestive tract, resulting in failure of food to move...
Dynamic chest radiography minimally invasive tool for hemodynamic assessment of heart failure Written By Jacinthlyn Sylvia12 Feb 2023 8:00 PM ISTA less invasive method for assessing the hemodynamics of heart failure is dynamic chest radiography, says an article published in European Journal of...
Increased MRI and CT scans linked to excessive CO2 emission Written By Jacinthlyn Sylvia10 Feb 2023 8:00 PM ISTUnjustified clinical variance in the use of MRI and CT scans results in considerable CO2 emissions among nations with similar rates of growth, says an...
