Cardiothoracic

What’s New in Cardiothoracic Imaging – July 2021

  Application of N Descriptors Proposed by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer in Clinical Staging Hwayoung Song, Sung Hyun Yoon, Junghoon Kim, Jihang Kim, Kyoung Won Lee, Woojoo Lee, Seungjae Lee, Kwhanmien Kim, Choon-Taek Lee, Jin-Haeng Chung, Kyung Hee Lee. Radiology; 300:1–9, May 2021 Researchers from Seongam Citizen Medical Center in […]

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What’s new in Cardiothoracic Imaging – May 2021

  Prevalence of Abnormal Coronary Findings on Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography Among Young Adults Presenting With Chest Pain  Jeremy R. Burt, MD, Matthew Cody O’Dell, MD, Basel Yacoub, MD, Jordan Chamberlin, BS, Jeffrey Waltz, MD, Charlotte Wallace, MD, Madison Kocher, MD, Michael Sacerdote, MD, Antonio Gonzalez, MD, Nicholas Feranec, MD, Manuel Hernandez, MD, Ali Agha, […]

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What’s new in Cardiothoracic Imaging – March 2021

  Performance of Chest Computed Tomography in Differentiating Coronavirus Disease 2019 From Other Viral Infections Using a Standardized Classification  Borges da Silva Teles, Gustavo, Kaiser Ururahy Nunes Fonseca, Eduardo, Yokoo, Patricia, et al. J Thorac Imaging. 2021;36(1):31-36. doi:10.1097/RTI.0000000000000563. Radiologists from the University of Sao Paulo report interesting outcomes from a retrospective study, wherein two thoracic radiologists evaluated […]

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What’s new in Cardiothoracic Imaging – January 2021

Analysis of the 30-Pack-Year Smoking Threshold in African Americans From an Underserved Lung Cancer Screening Program Basu, A., Kopulos, L., Geissen, N., Sukhal, S., & Smith, S. B. (2020). Journal of the American College of Radiology. doi:10.1016/j.jacr.2020.08.017 In an article written from Cook County and Northwestern University Hospitals, researchers described downfalls in the 30-pack-year-smoking (PYS) […]

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What’s new in Cardiothoracic Imaging – November 2020

— Subtracted Computed Tomography Angiography in the Evaluation of Coronary Arteries with Severe Calcification or Stents Using a 320-Row Computed Tomography Scanner Chen, Chun-Chi MD; Wu, Patricia Wanping MD; Tsay, Pei-Kwei PhD; Wang, Chun-Chieh MD; Toh, Cheng-Hong MD, PhD; Wan, Yung-Liang MD. Journal of Thoracic Imaging: September 2020 – Volume 35 – Issue 5 – […]

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What’s new in Cardiothoracic Imaging – September 2020

The Growth Rate of Subsolid Lung Adenocarcinoma Nodules at Chest CT Constance de Margerie-Mellon, Long H Ngo, Ritu R Gill, Antonio C Monteiro Filho, Benedikt H Heidinger, Allison Onken, Mayra A Medina, Paul A VanderLaan, Alexander A Bankier https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2020192322 Researchers from Harvard University and the University of Vienna seek to validate the exponential growth model for partially solid nodules (PSN’s) and ground glass […]

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What’s new in Cardiothoracic Imaging – August 2020

Thoracic   Using Quantitative Computed Tomographic Imaging to Understand Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Fibrotic Interstitial Lung Disease. State of the Art and Future Directions. Castillo-Saldana, D., et al. (2020). “Using Quantitative Computed Tomographic Imaging to Understand Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Fibrotic Interstitial Lung Disease: State of the Art and Future Directions.” J Thorac […]

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