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FDG-PET may guide antibiotic therapy in vascular graft infections
1. In a prospective cohort study of 25 patients with prosthetic vascular graft infections treated with systemic antibiotics, the use ...
Tag: Computed Tomography (CT)
CT-based assessment may predict the need for open heart surgery
1. Among a cohort of patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD), coronary computed tomographic angiography (CCTA) was comparable to ...
Use of CT for adult fall patients is rising in the emergency department
1. Between 2001 and 2010, a 2.5-fold increase in CT utilization has occurred among adult fall patients visiting the emergency ...
CT may be superior to MRI for pituitary tumor detection
1. Among patients with surgically-confirmed functional pituitary microadenomas, dynamic contrast-enhanced multisection computed tomography (DCE-MCT) was associated with improved tumor detection ...
MRI superior to CT for liver cancer diagnosis
1. In patients with chronic liver disease, magnetic resonance (MR) imaging was more sensitive than computed tomography (CT) for the ...
Radiologist recommendations often yield significant findings
1. Among patients with abnormal findings on outpatient chest x-ray who subsequently underwent chest computed tomography (CT) based on radiologist ...
CT texture analysis may predict liver insufficiency after hepatectomy
1. In patients undergoing partial hepatectomy, pre-operative CT scans of liver parenchyma revealed less homogenous texture in patients who went ...
CT colonography may help distinguish chronic diverticular disease from cancer
1. In the evaluation of focal mass-like findings in the sigmoid colon on computed tomographic (CT) colonography, segmental bulging and ...
Dual-energy CT may improve detection of acute small bowel ischemia
1. The use of dual-energy computed tomography (CT) significantly improved the conspicuity of hypoperfused bowel segments relative to healthy adjacent ...
Patient Basics: Computed Tomography (CT)
Originally published by Harvard Health. What Is It? Computed tomography, also called CT or CT scan, is a process that uses ...
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