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Low-priced diagnostic ultrasound imaging equipment developed by a company in Okinawa is contributing to prenatal checkups for pregnant women in Africa. According to “Trends in Maternal Mortality: 1990 ...

Background Accurate discrimination of functionally significant coronary stenosis using intravascular imaging remains ...

ohsu.edu Contrast echocardiography is a family of ultrasound-based procedures ... and detected in order to improve diagnostic performance. This review describes: (1) the agents that have been designed ...

Each of these cases was evaluated by ultrasound following an assessment protocol. Patients with ambiguous ultrasound findings and/or clinical signs were additionally assessed by magnetic resonance ...

The aim of this systematic review was to assess the accuracy of IVC-ultrasound as a stand-alone test for HF diagnosis in patients presenting to the ED with acute dyspnoea. Methods Studies evaluating ...

Objectives To describe the use of ultrasound by a professional ... The results of the diagnostic scans were assessed against subsequent clinical progress and correlation with any follow-up imaging.

The landscape of diagnostic imaging for diagnosing and managing chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) has undergone a remarkable evolution in recent years. Although duplex ultrasound (DUS) is the primary ...

umich.edu Background Although fetal ultrasound, fetal MRI and postnatal CT are now widely used in the evaluation of congenital lung malformations (CLM), their diagnostic accuracy remains undefined.

Obesity has a direct negative impact on the accuracy of abdominal ultrasound, as has been shown in studies of conditions such as appendicitis (2, 3). Sauvain et al. (3) found that ultrasound findings ...

An ultrasound scan of the abdomen was performed which showed mirror imaging of the abdominal viscera, all of which were otherwise structurally normal. A diagnosis of situs inversus totalis was made.