But Jeremy London, MD, a board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon in Savannah, Georgia, says that requesting three specific ...

Finding cervical cancer often starts with an abnormal HPV (human papillomavirus) or Pap test result. This will lead to further tests which can diagnose cervical cancer or pre-cancer. The Pap test and ...

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is among the most widespread and dangerous diseases that may cause death. Recently, Endovascular Aneurysm Repair outperformed open aortic surgery, since it is a safe ...

Table 1 depicts preoperative data regarding the patients with or without HSK. The mean age of the patients with HSK was 67.29 ± 2.43 years. Although preoperative serum creatinine levels were ...

This study aims to investigate the ‘opportunity cost’ of surveillance imaging by exploring the cost-effectiveness of four surveillance strategies (see table 1) for the diagnosis and treatment of ...

Katrina Schriver, lead radiologist, stands next to the new computed tomography (CT) scanner at O’Connor Hospital in Delhi, Thursday, June 19. Vicky Klukkert | The Daily Star ...

A hospital trust has apologised after failing to properly diagnose a “happily married” woman who was “living life to the full” when she collapsed.

CT angiography sensitivity ranged from 75.5–87.3%, while specificity held near 90% across scales. Sensitivity refers to how well a test finds its target, in this case, brain death.

The Connecticut pastor went to the hospital in late November because he needed a medical device replaced. He died on Christmas Eve. His family claims the Rev. Yves Abichet of Bridgeport died as a r… ...

The parents of a 10-year-old girl who died in WA's main paediatric hospital last August say their desperate pleas for a brain scan were ignored until it was too late — and they want a coronial ...

Your scan may reveal a nodule on your lungs, but that doesn’t mean that you have cancer. Nodules are found in up to half of adults who have a chest X-ray or CT scan of the lungs. [3] But, less ...