
Current Controversies in Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology , An Issue of Radiologic Clinics of North America
- 1st Edition, Volume 62-6 - October 15, 2024
- Editors: Douglas S. Katz, John J. Hines
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 4 6 2 6 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 4 6 2 7 - 2
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Radiologic Clinics, guest editors Drs. Douglas S. Katz and John J. Hines bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Current Evidence for Selected Topics in Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology. Current evidence in radiology asks the question: what is the most appropriate imaging test on the basis of the best available evidence, the physician's experience, and the patient's expectations? In this issue, top experts review current controversies in radiology and the evidence used to support or contradict the clinical question asked.
- Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including how do we assess controversies using evidence-based radiology?; artificial intelligence in radiology; stroke: controversies in imaging, intervention, and management; manufactured “controversies” have obscured the importance of breast cancer screening; nuclear medicine controversies; and more.
- Provides in-depth clinical reviews on current evidence for selected topics in diagnostic and interventional radiology, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
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- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- CME Accreditation Page
- Forthcoming Issues
- Preface
- How Do We Assess Controversies Using Evidence-Based Radiology?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Diagnostic test performance
- The effect of disease prevalence on sensitivity and specificity
- Randomized controlled trials
- Systematic review and meta-analysis in radiology
- Decision-analytic and simulation modeling
- Regression analysis, propensity score methods, and artificial intelligence
- Bias in imaging research
- Discussion
- Clinics care points
- Artificial Intelligence in Radiology: What Is Its True Role at Present, and Where Is the Evidence?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Artificial intelligence in radiology: transforming imaging techniques and protocols
- Artificial intelligence and imaging findings/pathology
- Clinical applications
- Redefining diagnostic criteria
- Current landscape of artificial intelligence in radiology
- Promises of artificial intelligence in radiology
- Types of artificial intelligence in radiology
- Challenges and limitations
- Clinical evidence supporting artificial intelligence in radiology
- Case studies
- Future perspectives
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Iodine and Gadolinium Contrast Reactions: What Is the Risk and Role of Premedication, Abbreviated Protocols, Prior History of Reactions, and Cross-Reactivity?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Iodinated Contrast and Nephropathy: Does It Exist and What Is the Actual Evidence?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Intravascular contrast-associated AKI and intravascular contrast-induced AKI
- Historical context of contrast-induced acute kidney injury
- Evidence against the existence of contrast-induced acute kidney injury
- Evidence supporting the existence of contrast-induced acute kidney injury
- Incidence of contrast-induced acute kidney injury and contrast-associated acute kidney injury
- Potential long-term risks of iodinated contrast material exposure
- Potential contrast-associated acute kidney injury and contrast-induced acute kidney injury risk factors
- Screening for contrast-induced acute kidney injury
- Prevention of contrast-induced acute kidney injury
- Creatinine and newer contrast-induced acute kidney injury biomarkers
- Future considerations
- Current recommendations for iodinated contrast material use
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Potpourri of Contrast Controversies and Myths: Where Is the Actual Evidence?
- Key points
- Introduction
- The evidence behind barium peritonitis
- Iodinated contrast use in patients with a shellfish allergy
- Iodinated contrast use in patients with a solitary kidney
- The role of prophylactic hemodialysis in patients with chronic renal disease in the prevention of contrast-induced nephropathy
- Intravenous contrast administration during pregnancy and lactation
- Contrast osmolality and the risk of intravenous contrast allergy
- Iodinated contrast administration and thyroid function of pediatric patients
- Gadolinium-based contrast agents and nephrogenic systemic fibrosis
- The role of hemodialysis after the administration of gadolinium-based contrast agents
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Vertebral Augmentation for Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures: What is the Current Evidence Pro and Con?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Clinics care points
- More than a Half Century of Misinformation About Breast Cancer Screening
- Key points
- Introduction
- Screening guidelines over time
- Experts were excluded
- “Experts” with no expertise
- Fundamental fact: the randomized controlled trials proved that screening saves lives for women aged 40 to 74 years
- Noncompliance and contamination
- Observational studies confirm the benefit in general populations
- “Frosting on the cake”
- Death rates fall in the United States soon after the start of screening
- Why do women with breast cancer do better than men?
- “Overdiagnosis” has been falsely blamed on screening
- False claims have been raised about the “harms” of screening in support of reduced screening “recalls” for additional evaluation
- There is no scientific support for using the age of 50 years as a threshold for screening
- It is falsely claimed that screening does not reduce “all-cause mortality”
- It is falsely claimed that screening is ineffective because it does not reduce the rate of advanced cancers
- It is claimed that we should only screen women who are at elevated risk of developing breast cancer
- Screening every 2 years means that women will die whose lives could be saved by annual screening
- The bottom line
- Venous Interventions: Controversies in the Management of Acute Deep Venous Thrombosis and the Role of the Interventional Radiologist
- Key points
- Acute lower extremity deep vein thrombosis and post-thrombotic syndrome: scope of the problem
- Post-thrombotic syndrome: pathophysiology and the “open vein hypothesis”
- Anticoagulation as first-line therapy
- Evidence-based role of catheter-directed thrombolysis and pharmacomechanical thrombectomy in prevention of post-thrombotic syndrome: early supportive studies
- The Catheter-directed Venous Thrombolysis trial
- The acute venous thrombosis: thrombus removal with adjunctive catheter-directed thrombolysis trial
- Summary and future directions
- Clinics care points
- Funding
- Imaging of Cirrhosis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Current Evidence
- Key points
- Introduction
- Diagnosis of cirrhosis
- Screening of hepatocellular carcinoma
- Diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma
- Summary
- Evidence-Based Review of Current Cross-Sectional Imaging of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Key points
- Introduction
- CT enterography and MR enterography imaging technique
- CT enterography and MR enterography utilization
- Crohn’s disease imaging findings
- Quantitative Crohn’s disease activity assessment
- Ulcerative colitis imaging findings
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Ultrasound Contrast Agents: Current Role in Adults and Children for Various Indications
- Key points
- Introduction/background
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound technique
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound advantages and disadvantages
- Uses of contrast-enhanced ultrasound
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Trauma and ‘Whole’ Body Computed Tomography: Role, Protocols, Appropriateness, and Evidence to Support its Use and When
- Key points
- Introduction
- Indications and rationale for whole-body computed tomography in polytrauma
- Whole-body computed tomography technique
- Dual-energy computed tomography, post-processing techniques, and applications in polytrauma
- Injury spectrum
- Cranio-cervical injuries
- Traumatic aortic injury
- Diaphragmatic injuries
- Cardiac, pulmonary trunk, and thoracic inferior vena cava injury
- Non-vascular chest injury
- Bowel injury
- Mesenteric injury
- Solid organ injury (liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, and adrenals)
- Other vascular injuries
- Diagnostic pitfalls
- Incidental findings
- Artificial intelligence use in polytrauma whole-body computed tomography
- Radiation exposure in whole-body computed tomography
- Structured reporting
- Summary
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 62-6
- Published: October 15, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443246265
- eBook ISBN: 9780443246272
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Douglas S. Katz
Affiliations and expertise
Vice Chair and Director of Body CT, Department of Radiology, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY, USA; Professor of Clinical Radiology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USAJH
John J. Hines
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Radiology
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
New Hyde Park, NY
USA