Dear AuntMinnieEurope Member,
Recreational drug abuse can have a substantial impact on the heart and lungs, but what's the role of radiology? And which imaging modality and techniques tend to produce the best results?
Researchers from Girona, Spain, and Liverpool, U.K., have provided answers in a new European Journal of Radiology article. They've kindly agreed to share with us four clinical cases. Get the full story in this week's top article.
Continuing our Spanish theme, experts from Barcelona have reported that adding dynamic CT perfusion to cardiac CT angiography shortens time to diagnosis of coronary artery disease. They presented their results at the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography meeting.
As every sports fan knows, the opening ceremony of the Olympics takes place in Paris tonight at 19:30 local time. The 32 radiologists and 36 radiographers working for the medical imaging service are ready to swing into action, Dr. Jérôme Renoux explains in our report about the games.
Away from the Olympics, a global research team has found that patients who receive higher cumulative doses of radiation from CT have higher death rates from prior disease than those who receive lower doses. Interestingly, nearly one-third to half remain alive a decade later.
The authors of another recent study found that while AI improved the specificity of mammography interpretation, mammography plus supplemental ultrasound detected more node-negative early breast cancers that AI-enhanced mammography could not detect. AI cannot fully compensate for mammography's low sensitivity in women with dense breasts, they insisted.
Philip Ward
Editor in Chief
AuntMinnieEurope.com
