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Week in Review: Making bold career moves | Race begins for ESR presidency | New Danish cardiac CT study

By Philip Ward

April 6, 2023

Could ultrasound be used before DBT in focal breast complaints?

By Amerigo Allegretto

Ultrasound is an accurate standalone imaging modality in assessing focal breast complaints compared to the combination of ultrasound and digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), a Dutch study of nearly 2,000 women has found.

April 6, 2023

SPECT/CT helps assess patients with knee pain following arthroplasty

By Will Morton

SPECT/CT is an effective way to evaluate noninfected painful knees in patients after they have undergone arthroplasty, according to new global research. The technique proved particularly accurate in cases of joint loosening, patellofemoral disorders, and component malalignment.

April 5, 2023

Career switches can pay off, says senior Irish radiologist

By Liana Gruenberg

Radiologists must not be afraid to branch out into broader health management roles and advocate the value of radiology within the system at large. That's the view of Prof. Risteárd Ó Laoide from Dublin, who also reflects on the devastating 2021 cyberattack.

April 5, 2023

Subclinical atherosclerosis increases heart attack risk 8-fold

By Kate Madden Yee

Coronary atherosclerosis -- detected on coronary CT angiography (CCTA) -- increases a person's risk of heart attack eight-fold, Danish authors have stated. The findings sound a warning to clinicians about monitoring patients with poor heart health, they believe.

April 4, 2023

TeraRecon expands Eureka with Radiobiotics deal

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Advanced visualization and artificial intelligence (AI) software developer TeraRecon has formed a partnership with Danish AI software firm Radiobotics.

April 3, 2023

Who will become the new ESR president in 2025?

By Philip Ward

Two candidates have been nominated for the post of 2nd VP of the European Society of Radiology (ESR) -- Prof. Jacob Sosna from Jerusalem and Prof. Minerva Becker from Geneva. The winner will become ESR president in July 2025 and preside over ECR 2026.

April 3, 2023

Attention focuses on MRI exam follow-up in brain cancer

By Kate Madden Yee

Brain cancer patients who undergo repeated brain MRI scans for follow-up appear to tolerate them well, but most would prefer to avoid gadolinium-based contrast agents if the results were diagnostically equivalent, Dutch researchers have found.

April 3, 2023

Ablaze announces progress on liver cancer therapy

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Ablaze Pharmaceuticals has licensed a peptide drug candidate from RayzeBio that it will develop to target the liver cancer biomarker GPC3. The plans is to market the new drug in China, where the company is headquartered.

April 2, 2023

New advice issued on use of MRI in COVID-19 cases

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance has released a recommendation for cardiac MRI of COVID-19. The modality is an effective way to assess heart health in these patients, the authors say.

April 2, 2023

Patients with low bone density may be at higher dementia risk

By Will Morton

Individuals with low bone mineral density scores on dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry could be more likely over time to develop dementia, according to a study from Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

April 2, 2023

Italian team tests sciatica treatment in patients with disk herniation

By Will Morton

CT-guided pulsed radiofrequency combined with steroid injection appears promising for relieving pain in patients with lumbar disk herniation, a group from Rome have reported.

April 2, 2023

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