CT angiography matches invasive angiography for checking bypass vein graft patency
A prospective study of 58 post-CABG patients found that multidetector CT coronary angiography matched invasive angiography closely in assessing saphenous ...
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Intestinal ultrasound score tracks Crohn’s disease activity with high accuracy
A prospective study of 28 Crohn's disease patients found that a standardized intestinal ultrasound score correlated strongly with clinical activity ...
AI Echocardiography Shows No Systematic Sex Bias in Retrospective Swedish Study
A retrospective Swedish study of 183 patients found no systematic sex-related differences in how an AI echocardiography tool agreed with ...
PSMA PET-guided robotic transgluteal biopsy outperforms TRUS fusion biopsy in Indian cohort
A prospective Indian study found that PSMA PET/CT-guided robotic transgluteal biopsy detected more clinically significant prostate cancer and caused fewer ...
Plasma GDF15 Shows Diagnostic Potential in Biopsy-Indicated Prostate Cancer Cohort
A biopsy-indicated cohort study found plasma GDF15 achieved an AUC of 0.805 for prostate cancer detection, and a nomogram combining ...
Blood sugar markers glycated albumin and fructosamine show moderate accuracy for diabetes diagnosis
A systematic review and meta-analysis finds glycated albumin and fructosamine show moderate sensitivity and good specificity for detecting diabetes in ...
Routine wrist MRI misses many scapholunate ligament tears, arthroscopy study finds
A retrospective comparison of 864 patients found that routine wrist MRI reliably identified intact scapholunate ligaments but missed a majority ...
Deep Learning on Liver MRI Shows Promise for Detecting Liver Cancer, but Evidence Remains Thin
A systematic review finds that deep learning on liver MRI reaches pooled sensitivity of 0.862 and specificity of 0.916 for ...
AI bedside ultrasound reads heart function well but loses to trained sonographers
A prospective study of 215 patients found AI-assisted bedside ultrasound accurately estimated left ventricular ejection fraction but was outperformed by ...
Ultrasound Risk Scores Track Cytology Results in Low-Risk Thyroid Nodules
A prospective Iraqi study of 90 biopsied patients found that benign cytology was significantly more common in ACR-TIRADS II nodules ...
Dermoscopy Training Helps Primary Care Doctors Spot Skin Cancers, Review Finds
A systematic review of reviews finds dermoscopy training improves diagnostic accuracy and confidence among primary care practitioners, though evidence quality ...
Gastroscopy can flip urea breath test results in patients with low baseline DOB values
A prospective study of 93 patients found that 12.9 percent converted from a positive to a negative ¹³C-urea breath test ...
MRI-Based Centiloid Methods Prove Most Reliable for Amyloid PET Scoring
A head-to-head validation in EJNMMI Physics finds MRI-based Centiloid pipelines deliver near-perfect reproducibility for amyloid PET, while PET-only software performance ...
Saliva biomarkers show promise for detecting gastric cancer, review finds
A systematic review and meta-analysis finds salivary nucleic acid biomarkers, especially in integrated validation-phase models, show promising but not yet ...
Automated hand hygiene monitoring shows high specificity but uncertain accuracy in review
A systematic review and meta-analysis finds pooled sensitivity of 86 percent and specificity of 98 percent for automated hand hygiene ...
New IgG blood test for H. pylori shows high specificity but limited sensitivity
A new ELISA kit for detecting anti-Helicobacter pylori IgG antibodies showed the highest specificity of four assays tested but the ...
Icterometer shows promise as low-cost screen for newborn jaundice in Bhutan
A Bhutanese hospital study found that a simple plastic icterometer screened neonatal hyperbilirubinemia nearly as well as transcutaneous bilirubinometry against ...
Xpert leads molecular TB tests in smear-negative lavage fluid, retrospective study finds
A retrospective Chinese hospital study found Xpert MTB/RIF was the most sensitive single test for tuberculosis in smear-negative lavage fluid, ...
Bayesian Framework Merges Clinical Expertise With Machine Learning Diagnosis
A new Bayesian framework called PIML combines machine learning analysis of electrical impedance signals with clinical prior knowledge, improving diagnostic ...
CSF Tests for Bacterial Meningitis: What a Major Meta-Analysis Found
A meta-analysis of 27 studies and 5,673 patients quantifies how well routine CSF tests detect bacterial meningitis.
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