Ultrasound: Page 110

Ultrasound helps identify allergic etiology of chronic sinus disease

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Dec 23 - In patients with chronic maxillary sinus disease, an allergic etiology can be confirmed using serial ultrasound exams to monitor responses to nasal allergen challenge.

December 22, 2009

Ares completes Esaote buyout

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Biomedical and healthcare equity fund Ares Life Sciences has completed its purchase of a 40% stake in Italian ultrasound vendor Esaote.

December 15, 2009

Tissue Doppler ratio predicts cardiac events in hypertensive patients

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Dec 10 - Estimates of left atrial filling pressure, drawn from Doppler studies of the left ventricle, can strongly predict a first cardiac event in hypertensive patients, according to a report in the November 26 European Heart Journal.

December 9, 2009

Ultrasound signals of asymptomatic emboli predict stroke risk

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Dec 7 - Asymptomatic emboli detected by transcranial Doppler ultrasonography can predict stroke risk, according to a report in the December issue of Stroke.

December 6, 2009

Echocardiography test beats SPECT for predicting problems after MI

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Dec 7 - Myocardial contrast echocardiography is superior to nitrate-enhanced SPECT in predicting cardiac death and other cardiac events after acute myocardial infarction, say researchers from the U.K. in the November 1 American Journal of Cardiology.

December 6, 2009

Ultrasound detects subclinical synovitis in juvenile arthritis

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Nov 27 - Ultrasound can detect subclinical synovitis in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis, Italian researchers report in the November 15 issue of Arthritis and Rheumatism.

November 26, 2009

Investor group leads Esaote buyout

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Biomedical and healthcare equity fund Ares Life Sciences has taken a 40% stake in Italian ultrasound vendor Esaote.

November 18, 2009

Automated segmentation could improve fetal heart echo

By Eric Barnes

A new method of segmenting the fetal heart with echocardiography could improve the evaluation of congenital heart defects compared to the time-consuming manual segmentation in use today, according to researchers from the U.K.

November 5, 2009

GE inks European Vscan evaluation deal

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

GE Healthcare has announced that it is entering into agreements in Spain and Italy to evaluate its Vscan pocket-sized ultrasound scanner in the clinical setting.

November 4, 2009

Diagnosis, abortion of Down's babies rising in U.K.

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), Oct 27 - A rise in older women becoming pregnant has led to a big jump in Down's syndrome diagnoses in Britain, but fewer babies are born with the condition because more than 90 percent are aborted, researchers said on Tuesday.

October 26, 2009

Contrast ultrasound may spot early signs of atherosclerosis

By Erik L. Ridley

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) can allow for reliable quantification of the neovascularization of the carotid artery vasa vasorum, enabling early identification of a condition that can be a precursor to atherosclerosis, according to a presentation at this week's Advances in Contrast Ultrasound: ICUS Bubble Conference in Chicago.

October 19, 2009

Biochemical failure of high-intensity ultrasound for prostate CA redefined

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Oct 16 - An increase in prostate-specific antigen level of 1.2 ng/mL over the nadir should be considered a biochemical failure after high-intensity focused ultrasound for prostate cancer, according to authors of a paper in the October issue of BJU International.

October 15, 2009

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