noninvasive 1 1

Tag: "noninvasive" at medical news

Inaccuracies in Cardiac PET-CT Scanning

...graphy, the PET-CT scanners should be an accurate, noninvasive tool for detecting or assessing severity of heart disease, said Gould, executive director of the Weatherhead P.E.T. Center. However, he said, an erroneous basic concept in the software functions make the PET-CT scanners prone to generating false-posi...

Brain Pathway for Depression Revealed

...ll that complexity" Deisseroth predicted that, as noninvasive imaging of human brains gets better in the next few years, researchers will be able to measure these same quantitative measures in people as well. "That will be a wonderful thing when that happens," he said. Mitzi Baker650-725-2106mabaker@stanford....

New Therapies for Kidney Diseases

...tation. The insights might help develop effective, noninvasive therapies. The kidneys are the organs that help our body dispose of potentially harmful waste. Diseases that affect this fundamental function are very serious but so far only poorly understood. NPHP is such a disease; it causes the kidneys to de...

CT Scan Radiations may Lead to Cancer

...osis of this disease has led to the development of noninvasive methods for CAD diagnosis, including the 64-slice computed tomography coronary angiography (CTCA; combines multiple X-ray images with the aid of a computer to produce cross-sectional views of the heart and coronary arteries). It has been predicted ...

Fibroid Symptoms in Women can Be Relieved by Focused Ultrasound

A noninvasive ultrasound procedure effectively shrinks uterine fibroids and significantly relieves fibroid-related symptoms in women, according to the results of a multicenter clinical trial reported in the June issue of the journal Radiology. Magnetic resonance-...

Long-term Use of Herceptin Does Not Increase Heart Failure in Patients

...Multiple Gated Acquisition scan, or a MUGA scan a noninvasive tool that produces a moving image of the beating heart to determine the health of the cardiac ventricles. The research team also identified possible risk factors for breast cancer patients more likely to develop congestive heart failure from adding...

Brain Tumor Patients Survival Depends on Predicting Treatment Responses Earlier

...ug treatment. PET is a safe, highly specialized, noninvasive imaging technique that uses short-lived radioactive substances to produce three-dimensional images of those substances functioning within the body. A special type of camera works with computers to provide precise pictures of the areas of the body bei...

Eliminating Cellulite

...ill be receiving cellulite reduction procedures as noninvasive cellulite reduction products receive over- the-cou...physician supervision or intervention, a number of noninvasive cellulite reduction devices will gain over the counter approval by the FDA. Over the counter celluli...

Geisinger Launches Extensive Study on Obesity and Related Liver Problem

...liver or for infection. The goal is to develop a noninvasive blood test for the disease and then bring it to market so other physicians can use it, said Geisinger staff scientist Glenn S. Gerhard, MD. To that end, Geisinger is uniquely positioned to develop such a test because of the array of resources the s...

Gene Test Shown to Measure Heart Function After Transplant

... hearts and who can be monitored and managed using noninvasive methods such as the GEP test. Those patients may benefit from being more aggressively weaned off intensive immunosuppressive regimens. This new research suggests that the use of this test may have much greater potential than simply identifying patien...

PET Imaging Identifies Aggressive Kidney Cancers That Require Surgery

...for this disease. PET is a highly specialized, noninvasive imaging technique that uses short-lived radioactive substances to produce three-dimensional color images of those substances functioning within the body. Unlike CT (computerized tomography) and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), which provide anatomic...

Blood Marker Helps Predict Prognosis Among Those With Abdominal Infection

...earch for an optimum diagnostic tool for an early, noninvasive and reliable diagnosis of abdominal infections and sepsis," the authors write. Currently, these conditions are diagnosed with imaging procedures and guided aspiration (suction) techniques. "An accurate and readily available biochemical marker for ide...

Ear Fluid Does Not Impair Development

...e also helped establish the use of tympanometry, a noninvasive test to determine the presence or absence of middle-ear abnormalities. Tympanometry has since become a standard diagnostic procedure in primary care pediatrics and an important tool in clinical studies of otitis media. Source-Eurekalet PRI...

Accuracy of Gene Expression Test for Heart Transplant Patients Confirmed

...sk patients who can be monitored and managed using noninvasive methods and who may benefit from being more aggressively weaned off intensive immunosuppressive regimens that are associated with serious side effects. 'Additional clinical roles for this new mode of transplantation rejection monitoring will be iden...

University Evaluates New Device To Treat Brain Tumors

...otherapy -- to that treatment combined with a new, noninvasive therapy that provides alternating electrical fields directly to the surface of the head. "This therapy is a totally novel approach that is, in concept, relatively simple," said Dr. Herbert Engelhard, associate professor of neurosurgery and site inv...

Early Onset of Atherosclerosis Reported in Obese Children

...a on 3,630 children of ages 5 to 18. They employed noninvasive methods that measured blood flow and the thickness of artery walls in children with and without heart disease risk factors. It was found that, children having heart disease risk factors showed early signs of atherosclerosis. Piran says obesity also p...

"Umbrella" Valve Provides Potential Alternative to Lung Surgery

...hysema breathe easier and may ultimately provide a noninvasive alternative to lung reduction surgery. // In a new study presented at CHEST 2006, the 72nd annual international scientific assembly of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), the IBV? Valve, a nonsurgical, investigational device, was shown ...

Large Community Spirometry Screening Proves Successful

... “Spirometry screening is an easy, painless, and noninvasive test that identifies people with obstructive lung disease, even at a stage when they may not be experiencing significant symptoms,” Dr. Cohen said. “This is especially important, because people in our sedentary society may not experience symptoms unt...

Computer-Driven System Reduces Patient Mechanical Ventilation Time Significantly

... self-removal from ventilator assistance, need for noninvasive ventilation, mechanical ventilation longer than 21 days, and tracheostomy (surgically opening the trachea), was reduced by 30 percent in the computer-driven weaning group. “The system used in the study was developed several years ago and has been r...

Child-Proof: Brain Mapping Safer for Children than Previously Thought

...tions. In some cases, diagnosis is possible with noninvasive imaging tests such as CT scans or magnetic resonan...ect one. “Unfortunately, we don’t know how often noninvasive tests are missing or misdiagnosing something,” Jordan says. “We do know that angiography is clear.” ...

1 2 3