Latest - Radiology

• GIST of the Duodenum and Proximal Jejunum What did imaging reveal about the cause of flank pain in this patient with a history of neurofibromatosis type 1?
  Applied Radiology, December 01, 2020
• Febrile UTIs in Infants: A Talk With AAP Guideline Author   The Cribsiders share clinical pearls on febrile UTIs from Kenneth Roberts, professor emeritus of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and author of the AAP guideline.
  The Cribsiders, November 30, 2020
• RSNA 2020 Blood Vessels in the Eye May Diagnose Parkinson's Disease With the help of machine-learning algorithms, images of the vasculature of the eye may open a window to a new way of diagnosing neurological disease.
  Medscape Medical News, November 29, 2020
• Review Shows That Pharma Payments Do Influence Prescribing While many physicians resist the idea that pharma payments influence their prescribing, a new review finds a dose-response relationship between the two.
  Medscape Medical News, November 27, 2020
• Features and Molecular Mechanisms of ACTH-Secreting pNETs A better understanding of the clinical features and molecular mechanisms of ACTH-secreting pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors could lead to more targeted treatment options.
  Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, November 26, 2020
• RSNA 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from RSNA 2020
  Medscape Radiology, November 25, 2020
• Medical Leaders Launch Grassroots Doctors' Alliance Inaugural town hall introduces a movement to unite doctors behind a single issue: the restoration of the physician–patient relationship.
  Medscape Medical News, November 25, 2020
• TB in Primary Care: New Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines   Dr Neil Skolnik keeps it practical for PCPs with this summary of the latest diagnosis and treatment guidelines.
  Medscape Family Medicine, November 25, 2020
• Risk Factors for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy The authors present a framework for risk factors for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, including nonhead trauma variables which may alter susceptibility to CTE and/or its clinical presentation.
  Seminars in Neurology, November 25, 2020
• Rivaroxaban to Prevent Brain Infarcts and Cognitive Decline Might rivaroxaban with or without aspirin significantly reduce the rate of covert infarct over aspirin alone among patients with stable coronary and peripheral vascular disease?
  Stroke, November 25, 2020
• Surgical and Pharmacological Outcomes in Acromegaly What have we learned about the surgical and pharmacological outcomes in acromegaly and the factors that may impact these outcomes?
  Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, November 25, 2020
• Alert FDA Clears First Drug to Treat Ultra-Rare Metabolic Disorder Lumasiran (Oxlumo) is the first treatment for primary hyperoxaluria type 1 (PH1), a rare genetic disorder that causes recurrent kidney stones and loss of kidney function.
  FDA Approvals, November 24, 2020
• Doctors: Our Culture Is Ours and We Need to Own It As physicians, we are complicit in the construction and maintenance of our culture. Is this who we want to be?
  Medscape Internal Medicine, November 24, 2020
• Breast Cancer Control Guidelines in State Cancer Control Plans Using breast cancer as an example, this study investigated whether states are heeding evidence-based recommendations and guidelines in the development of their Comprehensive Cancer Control plans.
  Preventing Chronic Disease, November 24, 2020
• CAC Scores, Lp(a), CRP: CV Screening in Real Life   Lipidologists Budoff and Baum discuss real-life implications of the CAC score and how to apply it, and other measures, to everyday patients.
  American College of Cardiology & Medscape , November 23, 2020
• Epidemiology, Clinical Presentation, and Evaluation of UTUC What do we currently know about the epidemiology, presentation, and assessment of upper-tract urothelial carcinoma?
  Translational Andrology and Urology, November 23, 2020
• Liver Cancer Rates Are Rising; So Is Optimism Around Its Treatment Dr Nancy Reau shares the promising data leading her to believe that the trends around liver cancer can soon be reversed.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, November 20, 2020
• AHA 2020 Stenotic Lesion Outcomes Better if FFR Guides PCI Restricting percutaneous interventions to stenotic lesions that are ischemic by fractional flow reserve thresholds is associated with better 5-year outcomes, according to a cohort study.
  Medscape Medical News, November 19, 2020
• AHA 2020 RAPID-CTCA: No Gains from CTA in Mid- to High-Risk Suspected ACS Fewer patients in the CTA group went on to invasive angiography compared with the standard-care group; but otherwise, routine coronary CTA didn't greatly alter management or outcomes.
  Medscape Medical News, November 19, 2020
• The COVID Complication You Might Miss An emerging complication of both severe influenza and COVID-19 may not be known to many healthcare providers. It can lead to deadly results.
  CDC Expert Commentary, November 19, 2020