SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY Shear wave elastography is a newer ultrasound technology used to check tissue stiffness. A transducer delivers high-intensity pulses that produce shear waves, which create a higher-quality image. The concept is similar to strain elastography, but instead of using transducer pressure to compare a shift in an ultrasound A-line (thereby measuring changes in strain), a […]
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What is Positron Emission Tomography (PET)? Positron emission tomography (PET) is a type of nuclear medicine procedure that measures metabolic activity of the cells of body tissues. PET is actually a combination of nuclear medicine and biochemical analysis. Used mostly in patients with brain or heart conditions and cancer, PET helps to visualize the biochemical […]
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DOTATOC Scan – Prominent images for finer diagnosis In recent times, PET CT studies have gained much importance in detecting many diseases. In many diseases like neuroendocrine tumors etc often get missed on a standard FDG PET study. Ga-68 labeled PET studies are asked for such clinical situations. Alike standard PET scans, the G8-Ga labeled PET […]
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Heart Attacks in Younger Adults “Heart attacks are on the rise for people less than 50 years old,” The truth? Heart disease (the catch-all condition under which heart attack is one subset) accounts for almost one in five deaths among adults between the ages of 25 and 64, according to a recent review in Trends in […]
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Benefits of Cardiac Checkup Your doctor is more likely to find a health problem than you could on your own. Doctors are trained to know what symptoms mean. They can refer you for tests, send you to the right specialist, or recommend treatments. Conditions like high blood pressure and hyperlipidemia often don’t cause symptoms early […]
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Benefits of Senior Citizen Checkups Checkups and preventive screenings are a good idea at any age, but especially as you get older. Along with wisdom, age brings greater chances of health problems. You’re more likely to get diseases like diabetes, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cancer, and arthritis as the years pass. Some of these conditions […]
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