Clinical News: Page 1047

Prenatal ultrasound marker predicts complex gastroschisis in neonates

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Intra-abdominal bowel dilatation on prenatal ultrasound strongly predicts complex gastroschisis, researchers from France report. Gastroschisis, a congenital abdominal wall defect, complicates one to five in 10,000 births.

November 29, 2011

CCTA beats calcium score for detecting obstructive disease

By Eric Barnes

CHICAGO - Coronary artery calcium scoring has enormous value for predicting future cardiac events, according to decades of solid research. But it falls short of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) for predicting the presence of obstructive disease in patients with acute chest pain, said researchers from Italy at the RSNA 2011 congress.

November 29, 2011

Fresh doubt cast on value of German radiation dose guidelines

By Rebekah Moan

CHICAGO - A German expert voiced grave concern at this week's RSNA 2011 congress about whether diagnostic reference levels for nuclear medicine are having any real impact on routine clinical practice.

November 29, 2011

Agfa unveils integrated PACS, pathology system

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Agfa Healthcare is unveiling a work-in-progress system that integrates digital pathology and its Impax PACS at this week's RSNA 2011 meeting in Chicago. The company is also highlighting recent Impax installations.

November 28, 2011

External radiation plus high-dose brachytherapy effective for high-risk prostate cancer

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Ten-year survival rates are high when patients with unfavorable localized prostate cancer are treated with external-beam radiotherapy boosted with conformal high-dose-rate brachytherapy, a Spanish group reports.

November 28, 2011

MRI rules supreme in postoperative knee, but challenges remain

By Philip Ward

CHICAGO - Advances in procedures such as knee replacement, ligamentous reconstruction, and articular cartilage and meniscus repair have led to rapid growth in open and arthroscopic knee surgery. This has heightened demand for postoperative MRI, yet the topic is barely covered in the literature, according to Swiss researchers.

November 28, 2011

New society represents forensic radiology

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

An international group of forensic pathologists, radiologists, radiographers, and surveying engineers has established the International Society of Forensic Radiology and Imaging.

November 28, 2011

Whole-body MRI better than spinal MRI in myeloma patients

By Rebekah Moan

CHICAGO - Whole-body MRI edged out spinal MRI in terms of prognostic value for multiple myeloma patients after stem cell transplantation, according to new German research presented on Monday at the RSNA congress.

November 28, 2011

Caso della settimana: Paziente di 59 anni con dolore addominale

28 novembre 2011 -- Storia clinica: Un paziente di sesso maschile di 59 anni giunge in osservazione per dolore addominale intermittente, alterazioni dell'alvo e perdita di peso insorti da circa 1 mes. Clicca qui per il Caso della settimana.

November 27, 2011

Dormez-vous? Hypnosis can overcome MRI claustrophobia

By Philip Ward

CHICAGO - More radiologists may soon be keen to learn about the art and science of hypnosis, following its successful use in France in patients who suffered from claustrophobia prior to undergoing MRI.

November 27, 2011

Philips gets FDA clearance for PET/MRI

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Royal Philips Electronics has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its whole-body Ingenuity PET/MRI system

November 27, 2011

FDG-PET/CT assesses early chemo response in breast cancer

By Wayne Forrest

CHICAGO - FDG-PET/CT's ability to evaluate pathological response after two cycles of neoadjuvant chemotherapy could help breast cancer patients avoid ineffective treatment, according to a study presented on Sunday at the RSNA 2011 meeting.

November 27, 2011

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