Guidelines and head injury rules have been developed, for adults and children, to support decision-making in the emergency department though whether their use is applicable to all population groups is debatable.
Since its first description [3] for head and neck reconstruction, technical development about fibula flap harvest and inset has been possible thanks to the improving experience and a better understanding of the physiology of the flap. An example of the improvement of the technique is the use of...
Avzivi (bevacizumab-tnjn), Vegzelma (bevacizumab-adcd), and Zirabev (bevacizumab-bvzr) to be medically necessary only for members who have a contraindication, intolerance, or ineffective response to the available equivalent alternative vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitor for oncology indications:...
In combination with Nivolumab: Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC), Microsatellite Instability-High (MSI- H) or Mismatch Repair Deficient (dMMR) Metastatic Colorectal Cancer, Hepatocellular Carcinoma Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)5 Melanoma, Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC), Head ...
Whilst ICP monitoring is most commonly used for themanagement of severe head trauma, its use also extends to CSF circulatory disorders, and can be eitherdiagnosticortherapeutic(by removing CSF to reduce pressures). Current indications for ICP monitoring includetraumatic brain injury(TBI),hydrocephalusor...
2 FNH: axial MRI in the late arterial phase (a) with Primovist® (Bayer Schering Pharma, Berlin, Germany) shows a large, slightly hyperintense lesion (arrow), with a hypodense centre, in the right liver, consistent with a central scar (arrow- head) [9]. The hepatobiliary phase (b) ...
Intended Use / Indications for Use The Boston Scientific DBS System is indicated for use in the following: Bilateral stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) as an adjunctive therapy in reducing some of the symptoms of moderate to advanced levodopa-responsive Parkinson’...
CMR’s advantages over computed tomography (CT) include again the avoidance of ionizing radiation along with superior ventricular function assessment, blood flow measurement, and tissue characterization. Table 1 Indications for CMR in congenital heart disease Full size table When performing CMR in CHD ...
64493 Injection(s), diagnostic or therapeutic agent, paravertebral facet (zygapophyseal) joint (or nerves innervating that joint) with image guidance (fluoroscopy or CT), lumbar or sacral; single level 64494 second level (List separately in addition to code for primary procedure) 64495 third and...
There are currently two modalities of acquisition for SPECT-CT: dual phase parathyroid scan (that relies upon the different washout of the tracer in the thyroid and the parathyroids, a scan that needs 90–150’ to be completed) and dual-tracer parathyroid scan (possibly more helpful when thyro...