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"All of us who practice radiology are seeing fatter and fatter patients," said Dr. William Torreggiani, consultant radiologist at Dublin's Tallaght Hospital. During a special session at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) a couple of years ago, expert speakers explained how the growing incidence of obesity is having an ever-greater impact on healthcare services across Europe. They urged radiologists to consider how to optimize imaging in larger patients and how they can help monitor the outcome of surgical procedures in the morbidly obese.
Against this background, Austrian researchers have studied the knee problems encountered by obsese children and adolescents. Click here to read about their findings.
Fusing myocardial perfusion imaging from SPECT with the complementary anatomical CT image is proving useful for assessing coronary artery disease. Cardiac specialists from Zurich University Hospital have extensive experience of hybrid imaging. Get the story here in our Cardiac Imaging Digital Community.
MR angiography (MRA) is particularly relevant for imaging renal arteries and portal and hepatic veins, especially for patients with decreased renal function or renal disease. The October issue of the European Journal of Radiology contains a special focus on abdominal MRA, and we have put together two news stories on this topic. Visit our MRI Digital Community to find out more.
One of Spain's top medical centers, the Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe in Valencia, has an impressive collection of six CT scanners, five MRI units, a PET system, and 23 ultrasound machines, and is also making use of the latest software to improve its chest and abdominal radiology and oncologic imaging. Click here to read more.
The issue of incidental findings cannot be ignored, and research centers must establish specific and detailed guidelines and protocols to manage these cases, according to a new report from the U.K. Royal College of Radiologists (RCR). For the details, click here.
