Pediatric Radiology: Page 22

Treating subclinical neonatal seizures may prevent brain injury

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jan 26 - Prompt treatment of subclinical and clinical seizures in newborns with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy can potentially decrease brain injury, according to a prospective trial from Belgium and the Netherlands.

January 25, 2010

MRI used in heart valve operation

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Surgeons at King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Center in London recently used MRI, rather than x-ray, to guide a procedure to widen a heart valve in a 6-year-old boy.

January 13, 2010

Scientific poster digital format offers potential to transform medium

By Cynthia E. Keen

CHICAGO - Displaying scientific posters in digital format at this year's RSNA meeting allows authors not only to convey facts, graphs, and photos, but also to incorporate some interactive functionality. Onsite digital displays offer huge potential to educate readers in ways that even the best developed paper poster cannot.

November 29, 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

Male childhood cancer survivors at risk for hypogonadism: study

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Nov 26 - Almost a quarter of adult men who have been treated for childhood cancer have hormone levels indicating testosterone deficiency, results of a Swedish study indicate.

November 25, 2009

Wireless capsule endoscopy feasible in young children

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Nov 11 - Wireless capsule endoscopy is feasible for detecting small intestinal pathology in children younger than 8 years old, according to a report in the November Gut. However, most children in this age group are unable to swallow the small device, so it needs to be introduced endoscopically.

November 10, 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

Risk of thyroid cancer increased in childhood cancer survivors

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Oct 28 - Childhood cancer survivors are 18 times more likely to develop thyroid cancer than the general population, U.K. researchers report.

October 27, 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

Biospace Med gets Dutch EOS sale

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

French digital radiography firm Biospace Med has received its first order in the Netherlands to install its EOS digital radiography system.

October 15, 2009

DEXA gets nod for kids with cystic fibrosis

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) exams can help identify bone mineral density reduction in children diagnosed with cystic fibrosis as young as age 5, according to researchers from Italy.

October 7, 2009

Early intervention may limit radiation-induced nodules

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Sep 23 - Thyroid nodules are not rare in children after radiation for cancer, Italian researchers report in the September European Journal of Cancer. However, close surveillance and early therapy appear to limit these sequelae.

September 22, 2009

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