1 of 2 DESCRIPTION A 44-year-old woman with a background of a mitral valve replacement presented to the emergency department with aphasia. A CT scan of the brain demonstrated an infarction in the territory of the left middle cerebral artery. She was not suitable for thrombolysis and was admitted to the stroke ward where a nasogastric (NG) tube was passed to allow administration of her medicatio...

A 67 years old woman was referred to nuclear medicine center for myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) for assessment of ischemic heart dieses (IHD).She had a history of atypical chest pain and dyspnea since about 10 days before admission. The MPI SPECT/CT was performed by stress/redistribution Tl-201 protocol. MPI was interpreted as relatively good coronary flow with no appreciable stress induced...

STUDY OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to determine the impact of the timing of chest tube insertion on outcome for the treatment of empyema, using a new animal model of empyema. DESIGN A prospective, controlled randomized, blinded design was used. SETTING The study was conducted in an animal research laboratory. PATIENTS OR PARTICIPANTS Sixty-six 2- to 3-kg rabbits were used in...

BACKGROUND Elimination of daily-routine chest radiographs (CXRs) may influence chest computed tomography (CT) and ultrasound practice in critically ill patients. METHODS This was a retrospective cohort study including all patients admitted to a university-affiliated intensive care unit during two consecutive periods of 5 months, one before and one after elimination of daily-routine CXR. Chest...

OBJECTIVE A cadaver-based study was carried out in order to describe the pulmonary drainage surgical technique, to determine whether the site for the insertion of the chest tube is appropriate and safe, and to determine the anatomical relationship of the chest tube with the chest wall, lungs, large blood vessels, and mediastinum. METHODS Between May and November of 2011, 30 cadavers of both g...

Objective: A cadaver-based study was carried out in order to describe the pulmonary drainage surgical technique, to determine whether the site for the insertion of the chest tube is appropriate and safe, and to determine the anatomical relationship of the chest tube with the chest wall, lungs, large blood vessels, and mediastinum. Methods: Between May and November of 2011, 30 cadavers of both g...

Radiologic Procedure Rating Comments RRL* Rule Out Bone Metastases Tc-99m bone scan whole body 2 ☢ ☢ ☢ X-ray radiographic survey whole body 2 ☢ ☢ ☢ FDG-PET/CT whole body 2 ☢ ☢ ☢ ☢ Rule Out Thoracic Metastases X-ray chest 2 ☢ CT chest without contrast 2 ☢ ☢ ☢ CT chest with contrast 2 ☢ ☢ ☢ CT chest without and with contrast 2 ☢ ☢ ☢ X-ray tomography chest 2 ☢ ☢ FDG-PET/CT whole body 2 ☢ ☢ ☢ ☢ Rul...

There are only a few studies with a small sample size of patients that have compared the risks of using chest tubes versus thoracentesis in hepatic hydrothorax. It has been shown that many complications may arise secondary to chest tube placement and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. In this retrospective study, patients with cirrhosis were identified from the 2009 National ...

Introduction In computed tomography (CT) technology, an optimal radiation dose can be achieved via changing radiation parameters such as mA, pitch factor, rotation time and tube voltage (kVp) for diagnostic images. Materials and Methods In this study, the brain, abdomen, and thorax scaning was performed using Toshiba 16-slice scannerand standard AAPM and CTDI phantoms. AAPM phantom was used for...

Fig. 1. Axial CT-scan image showing intercostal catheter located in the right pulmonary artery. Fig. 2. CT-scan image six weeks post removal of the catheter showing the sealed tract. used is by no means innocuous. Bleeding complications have been seen in patients with dense adhesions in the pleural space and in the post-pneumonectomy state. In the latter situation pulmonary vascular injury has ...