Nick Klenske

Because the health of our planet has a direct impact on the health and care of our patients, radiology has a responsibility to find ways to reduce our environmental impact.

For male patients increased left-ventricular mass (LVM) was predictive of a cardiovascular event, while LVM-to-volume ratio was predictive in female patients.

Carrie Cunningham, MD, MPH, is a surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital. She also suffers from depression.

Topics at this year’s Fast 5 sessions ranged from mentors to social media, but all echoed the annual meeting’s theme of building intelligent connections.

A man walks into an emergency room claiming to have inhaled paraffin and showing signs of lipoid pneumonia. Although this may sound like the start to a riddle or a joke, it’s in fact what piqued one radiologist’s curiosity about the work-related conditions affecting circus performers.

But what does the circus have to do with radiology?

If AI was a pop star, it would be entering its ‘Everything Era’.

Sinonasal tumors are a heterogenous group involving a variety of tissues within the nasal cavity or paranasal sinuses. Although such tumors are relatively rare, representing just three percent of tumors in the upper respiratory tract, they can cause morbidity and mortality for patients.

Providing a way to understand the most effective and safe means for preventing, diagnosing and treating a disease, clinical trials have long been a cornerstone of health care. In radiology, imaging trials are used similarly to evaluate and optimize the design and clinical use of medical imaging devices and methods.

The Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS) is an established standardized interpretation and reporting system that is specific for the imaging diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in high-risk patients.

Radiologists should understand common sources of imaging AI bias and the consequences of using biased models.

Private equity investment in radiology practices is nothing new. But the impact such investments have on the practice and on the radiologists is very much open to debate.

Often exhibiting no symptoms until an advanced stage, prostate cancer remains a difficult disease to detect. While screening can help, current practices, which test for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels, lack specificity and can be elevated for reasons other than cancer. MRI has the potential to close this screening gap.

Active surveillance is a conservative management approach that is increasingly being used for patients with low- and intermediate-risk prostate cancer.

'History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme' is a quote often credited to Mark Twain. But regardless of the saying's origin, the notion touches on the point that while we may view today's events, discoveries and circumstances as being unprecedented, upon closer examination, one will likely find that everything has some historic precedent.
Radiology is no exception.

For many people, the allure of addressing health issues before they are beyond medical treatment, can provide peace of mind. Marketing efforts used by whole-body imaging services tend to highlight “lifesaving diagnoses.” Unfortunately, such claims can be more hype than substance.