Gastrointestinal Radiology: Page 84

Prenatal MRI discovers often-misdiagnosed genetic disease
By Wayne Forrest
In what is believed to be a first in the U.S., radiologists at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in Stanford, CA, have used prenatal MRI to detect a rare genetic disease in a newborn.
March 9, 2010
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One-day bowel prep eases VC for patients, providers
By Eric Barnes
VIENNA - A one-day bowel prep and virtual colonoscopy exam regimen offers sufficiently good image quality, making life easier for both patients and providers compared to a multiday regimen, according to a study presented Sunday at the European Congress of Radiology.
March 6, 2010
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ACR to Obama: Medicare should cover CTC
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should cover CT colonography (CTC) for Medicare patients, the American College of Radiology (ACR) wrote in a March 2 letter to President Barack Obama.
March 4, 2010
ACG to Obama: Colonoscopy better than virtual exam
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Colonoscopy is the best option for colorectal cancer detection and prevention, according to the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) in Bethesda, MD.
March 3, 2010
Study: Patients prefer iohexol contrast taste
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A comparison of iodine-based oral contrast agents suggests that patients like the taste of iohexol better than diatrizoate, a preference that may be useful for very ill patients who have trouble tolerating the taste of contrast agents.
March 2, 2010
320-row CT minimizes dose in pediatric abdominal studies
By Eric Barnes
It's no secret that CT radiation dose levels in children -- especially in the emergency department, where patients are fidgety and physicians need fast answers -- are too high. One solution, investigated by researchers from Toronto and Berlin, is wide-area-detector scans with 320-detector-row CT.
March 2, 2010
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Obama gets virtual colonoscopy, keeps presidential powers
By Eric Barnes
As part of his first annual comprehensive physical exam as chief executive, U.S. President Barack Obama underwent a virtual colonoscopy exam that found him free of colorectal polyps or cancer, chief White House physician and Navy Captain Dr. Jeffrey Kuhlman told reporters Sunday.
February 28, 2010
VC obviates need for colonoscopy even in symptomatic patients
By Eric Barnes
Even among individuals with symptoms suggesting a higher risk of colorectal polyps and cancer, virtual colonoscopy screening is enough to prevent most of them from having to undergo invasive colonoscopy, according to a recent study from the Netherlands.
February 23, 2010
MRI enterography shows shortcomings for Crohn's disease
By Wayne Forrest
Although MRI enterography can diagnose important incidental findings in a minority of patients with suspected or known Crohn's disease, Dutch researchers have concluded that a substantial number of patients experience unnecessary morbidity because of additional examinations of benign or normal conditions.
February 22, 2010
VC CAD application does well alone and as reader aid
By Eric Barnes
A new investigational computer-aided detection (CAD) application significantly improves the accuracy of virtual colonoscopy interpretation, both as standalone software without a radiologist and in a real-world, multireader environment.
February 14, 2010
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MSK applications could give CAD a shot in the arm
By Erik L. Ridley
Computer-aided detection (CAD) technology in radiology has largely focused on cancer applications in the breast, chest, and colon. But with the pace of innovation slowing in those fields, the development of new musculoskeletal CAD applications could help revitalize the technology.
February 11, 2010
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Editorial: CMS unfairly held VC to higher standard
By Eric Barnes
When the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) rejected reimbursement for screening virtual colonoscopy last May, it appeared to hold VC to a higher standard than other screening tests that are already approved, according to an editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
February 4, 2010
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