There are three problems that are associated with increases in patient exposure which are lack of physician knowledge‚ lack of patient awareness and physician’s practice of defensive medicine. These issues have led to an increase in patient radiation dose every year. From 1996 to 2010 overexposure due to radiation has doubled. (Bardi‚ p.2) This is an alarming stat and shows that we need to really focus on this issue in the future. Another alarming stat is that Americans received seven times more
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blood vessel‚ causing hemorrhage. For early detection of acute stroke‚ it’s better to use CT scan because it has a lot of advantages. The use of computed tomography (CT) for stroke evaluation has riced‚ moreover ‚ CT is quick than MRI. Recently there are CT techniques like perfusion CT and CT angiography that combined with non-enhanced CT that help the physicians to put them to international protocol of CT stroke. To save the stroke patient within the golden hours ‚ The stroke team in the hospital
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and future environmental exposures. Screening tests or early detection is usually hard in a lung cancer patient as there are usually no symptoms. In up to 25 % of people who get lung cancer‚ it is found by accident on a routine chest X-ray or CT scan. The symptoms related to the invasion of the cancer cells may interfere with breathing‚ which intern can cause shortness of breath‚ wheezing‚ chest pain‚ and coughing up of blood. It can also spread to the bones causing excruciating pain. Cancer
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Croce e Carle Hospital in Cuneo are doctors from Italy. These researchers found that a machine called the Digital Chest Tomography is able to mimic a CT scan. The researchers took 1800 patients that have not shown signs of malignancy in 5 years. The doctors scanned the lungs with the DCT and if they found an abnormality they would send them to a CT scan. Researchers found that the DCT cost less and used less radiation‚ about a third of the amount. The Researchers published this paper because they wanted
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having trouble saying words and has a slight left-sided facial droop. When he helps her up from the bedside‚ he notices weakness in her left hand and convinces her to go to the local emergency room. Her first CT scan was negative for cerebrovascular accident; however‚ the second CT scan (18 hours later) reveals a small CVA in the right hemisphere. She is still experiencing expressive
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A variety of tests may be performed to rule out other conditions. Diagnostic approach CT brain none enhanced is one of first test to be done as in this case as may show hyperdense basilar sign of acute presentation‚ however it is less sensitive. While enhanced CT show filling defect. CT angiography is the gold stranded and helpful in identifying occluded and dolichoectatic vessels. In addition‚ angiogram should be used as tool helpful
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incision. An MRI allows your doctor to see the soft tissues in your body‚ along with your bones. An MRI can be performed on any part of your body. However‚ a heart or cardiac MRI looks specifically at your heart and the adjacent vessels. Unlike a CT scan(computed tomography)‚ an MRI does not use radiation. It is considered a safer alternative for pregnant women. What Does Cardiac MRI Show? According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH)2012‚a Cardiac MRI can reveal various
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The Story of My Search When I was a child‚ my aunt was diagnosed with brain cancer. From early on‚ they said that it was unlikely that she was going to survive this disease. They also mentioned that if she was going to survive‚ the long-term affects she was going to have were going to change her life forever. Being a child‚ it was extremely difficult for me to understand. I really had no idea what brain cancer was. Even to this day‚ I was only aware of the general knowledge of it — having a brain
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the inside of the body. while x-rays remain useful for looking at bones‚ MRI scans are the diagnostic tool of choice for soft-tissue organs‚ligaments‚ the circulatory system and the spinal column and cord. They help physicians identify multiple scoliosis‚ tumors‚ tendonitis‚ strokes and many other condition. Also MRI is similar to a CT- Scan in that it produces cross sectional images of the body. But unlike CT-Scan MRI does not use x-rays‚ instead it uses a strong magnetic field and radiowaves
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microscopic examination of the cyst and it showed a dense fibrous wall. Nine months after the surgery the patient complained of another mass in the same spot. She went back to the doctor that preformed the original surgery and he ordered a CT scan. The CT scan results showed two more cysts. They determined the cysts were from fluid leakage and not getting the entire cyst the first time. Ganglion cysts are common but since this one was located in the tendon itself‚ it is considered rare. These types
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