Background: The 2022 EULAR guidelines state “Ultrasound of temporal and axillary arteries should be considered as the first imaging modality to investigate mural inflammatory changes in patients with ...

Repeat right axillary artery ultrasound demonstrated excellent flow (figure 2B). A 63-year-old woman presented in 2011 with weight loss, postprandial abdominal pain, bitemporal headache and blurring ...

Intraoperative ultrasound (ioUS) is increasingly used in current neurosurgical practice. This is mainly explained by its affordability, handiness, multimodal real-time nature, and overall by its image ...

Patients with predominantly cranial vs isolated extracranial GCA phenotypes present with different patterns of arterial involvement on 18F-FDG PET-CT scans.

Temporal artery biopsy is the gold standard for diagnosis of GCA and is desirable in all cases. Other tests being used as surrogate imaging are: ultrasonography, fluorodeoxyglucose PET (FDG-PET ...

Background The Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI), calculated from serum albumin levels and lymphocyte counts, is a simple ...

Even a mild infection with COVID-19 can promote clogged arteries, increasing the risk of heart attack in some people, a new study says. Infection with the COVID-19 virus is associated with rapid ...

This study investigated the temporal sequence in greyscale abnormalities as well as the relationship between greyscale abnormalities, Doppler flow and pain. Methods Patellar tendon pain (single leg ...

A rapid increase in artery plaques could help explain why people who’ve had COVID-19 are at greater risk of stroke and heart attack. A new study linked COVID-19 with the rapid growth of plaque ...

Trained health care professionals (THCPs), including medical assistants, respiratory therapists, and nurses, with artificial intelligence (AI) assistance can achieve lung ultrasound (LUS ...