The scans can be completed in less than five seconds and require less radiation than a traditional chest x-ray.  

A new analysis suggests that, if the use of iodinated contrast were to follow pre-pandemic trends, it could rise by as much as 37% from 2019. 

But how reliable can synthetic radiologic images be in research settings? Are they as good as the real thing? 

Brian Lindman, MD, medical director of the Structural Heart and Valve Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, explains the new American Heart Association (AHA) Target Aortic Stenosis (AS) program to screen with echo to find more AS patients. 

Vessel wall imaging—an MRI technique that offers high resolution images of the vessel wall—may hold clues as to the mechanisms by which COVID infections continue to cause neurologic symptoms after initial recovery in some patients.  

James Udelson, MD, an investigator involved with the PRECISE trial, explained how patient outcomes were improved by 70% from the current standard of care.

New research indicates that there is significant reader variability in COVID classifications among different specialties when chest X-rays alone are the diagnostic tool of choice.

Though it is not yet clear why some COVID patients develop thyroiditis and some do not, researchers maintain that their findings “support the hypothesis of a direct thyroid gland involvement in SARS‐CoV‐2 infection.”