F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE July 25, 2023 Welcome to Impact Factor, your weekly dose of commentary on a new medical study. I’m Dr F. Perry Wilson of the Yale School of Medicine. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a CT scan of the chest might as well be Atlas Shrugged. When you think of the sheer information...
by Oxford University Press Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new paper in the British Journal of Surgery, published by Oxford University Press, indicates it’s now possible to diagnose appendicitis using low-does CT scans, decreasing the radiation exposure, which is of significant clinical importance especially in young patients. Appendicitis is one of the most common causes of hospital...
Eleven years ago this month, the scans and exams that hold the most power to spot the early signs of cancer became available for free to many American adults. Now, two new studies show that when those screening tests reveal potentially troubling signs, patients could face hundreds of dollars in costs for follow-up tests. A blood...
IMAGE: CT SCANS (TOP PANELS) AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING (BOTTOM PANELS) OF ASTHMATICS WITH (LEFT PANELS) AND WITHOUT (RIGHT PANELS) FIXED AIRFLOW OBSTRUCTION (FAO). LARGER CLUSTERS OF LOW ATTENUATION AREA WERE FOUND IN ASTHMATICS WITH FAO COMPARED TO THOSE WITHOUT FAO. (KAORUKO SHIMIZU ET AL., THE JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY, AUGUST 23, 2021.) CREDIT:...
