However, FE can be difficult to perform in seriously ill patients.Methods: We retrospectively reviewed charts and scans of all patients who had undergone thoracic CT (TCT) without oral contrast and FE for suspicion of esophageal perforation at our hospital between October, 2010 and December, 2015...
Cardiovascular fatigue– doing back-to-back exercises, especially for large muscle groups like the chest and back, can create a lot of cardiovascular fatigue, which may interfere with your workout performance. That said, if you do get very out of breath doing supersets, this strongly indicates ...
Blood tests check for heart damage and signs of a heart attack. An echocardiogram uses sound waves to see if blood is flowing normally through your heart. An ultrasound, x-ray, CT, or MRI scan may show the cause of your chest pain. You may be given contrast liquid to help your heart...
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The standard dependent method of pulmonary care remains clapping, vibration and compression, together with postural drainage and assisted coughing. Most practitioners prescribe 20 to 30-min CPT sessions 1 to 3 times a day, depending on the severity of disease and the presence of intercurrent infectio...
Neck CT without contrast (CPT70490) can be difficult to interpret due to difficulty identifying the blood vessels.o Contrast is not generally used when evaluating the thyroid gland withCT scan, since contrast may cause intense and prolonged enhancement of the gland which interferes with radioactive...
OBJECTIVE: Brain abscesses cause substantial morbidity and mortality even after appropriate therapy, and no underlying cause is found in 25% of cases. We investigated the added utility of contrast-enhanced chest computed tomography (CT) in the diagnosticwork-up of patients presenting with cerebral ...
Chest X-ray (CXR) characteristics of patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) depend on a variety of factors, and therefore, identifying the influence of these factors on the appearance of DR-TB in chest X-rays can help physicians improve diagnosis and clinical suspicion. Our aim was...
symptoms and chest CT findings was found. (4) Conclusions: More than half of the patients with initially mild or moderate infection showed findings on chest CT at follow-up. Respiratory symptoms, however, were not related to any chest CT finding. We, therefore, do not suggest routine chest ...
In the Section 2, we talk about a few recent studies that used chest X-rays and CT scans to look for COVID-19. This work improved the CNN lightweight and class balance for COVID-19 identification from chest X-rays. We tried out different data sets with different requirements (see Secti...