Ultrasound as effective as CT at identifying high-risk kidney stones, reduces radiation exposure
1. Point-of-care (POC) ultrasound was equally effective as CT scan in identifying renal calculi at “high-risk” for complications at 30-days ...
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Ultrasound useful for risk stratification after nondiagnostic thyroid biopsy
1. Among patients with a nondiagnostic fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) of thyroid nodules, the use of an ultrasound-based evaluation ...
Ultrasound, flow reserve guided coronary interventions provide minimal benefit
1. There was no difference in long term mortality amongst patients who underwent either fractional flow reserve (FFR)-guided percutaneous coronary ...
Less frequent echocardiography for cancer survivors may be more cost effective
Image: PD 1. This model of simulated health outcomes found that screening for cardiac disease by echocardiography or MRI among childhood ...
Ultrasound screening for AAAs has no effect on all-cause mortality
Image: CC/Wiki 1. A review of one-time ultrasound screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) demonstrated that screening was associated with ...
MRI-guided ultrasound thalamotomy may reduce essential tremor
Image: PD 1. MRI-guided ultrasound thalamotomy improved essential tremor symptoms in a small group of patients. 2. A substantial subset ...
Echocardiographic screening does not improve all-cause mortality
Image: PD 1. No mortality benefit was observed among white Norwegian adults randomly selected for echocardiographic screening for structural heart ...
Point-of-care ultrasound effectively identifies pediatric skull fractures
Image: PD 1. Point-of-care ultrasound had 88% sensitivity and 97% specificity for skull fractures . 2. Interobserver agreement among 17 ...
No long-term follow-up for benign thyroid nodules
Image: PD 1. Ultrasound (US) follow-up for longer than three years did not yield increased cancer detection after a benign ...
Transvaginal ultrasound is the best diagnostic method for ectopic pregnancy
Image: PD 1. With a sensitivity of 88% and specificity of 88% for detecting ectopic pregnancy, transvaginal sonography was the single ...