Archive for the 'MRI' Category

Greatest pain comes four hours after MR arthrogram injection

Researchers in Switzerland have found that patients who undergo MR arthrography temporarily experience the most pain in the affected joints four hours after injection.
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008

Understanding MRIs

This video provides information about what an MRI is and how it is performed. It explains the procedure and provides details about what to expect.
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008

MRI Revealed V2K Targeted Individual

Dark spot in right hemisphere of brain not in the book

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Sunday, December 21st, 2008

MRI and Rheumatoid Arthritis

Dr. Norman Gaylis discusses the use of MRI to detect early pathologic events in rheumatoid arthritis. Damian McNamara of Elsevier Global Medical News (EGMN) reports from a meeting sponsored by Rheumatology News and the Skin Disease Education Foundation.
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Saturday, December 20th, 2008

Study: How well does MRI-guided breast biopsy work?

Breast MRI has been gaining clinical interest of late, with its high sensitivity rate of 86% to 100% for detecting breast cancer. But there can be overlap in the MRI findings of enhancing breast lesions, which makes patient treatment decisions difficult without biopsy. And because other imaging techniques don’t always find the breast lesions MRI [...]

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Demyelinating pathology on MRI may precede MS symptoms

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Dec 11 - Patients with incidental MRI anomalies resembling demyelinated lesions that are not due to another disease process are at increased risk for multiple sclerosis (MS), researchers in San Francisco report in the December 10 online issue of Neurology.
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008