His former colleagues say he was a "ceaseless champion for advancing the radiology industry" and that his contributions to the field "will be remembered with immense gratitude.”
Nee Khoo, MBChB, director of the echocardiography lab at Canada's Stollery Children’s Hospital, explains the rapid adoption of pediatric 3D transesophageal echo.
The exam effectively helps providers manage patients’ treatment options, but for some, the costs associated with those treatments may negate the value of its findings.
Neiman researchers recently scoured for factors that might impact screening rates across cancers of the colon/rectum, lung, breast and prostate, using nationwide Medicare data.
The team hopes to develop a model that will estimate a patient's risk of major cardiovascular events and predict when such events are most likely to occur.
Nee Khoo, MBChB, director of the echocardiography lab at Canada's Stollery Children’s Hospital, explains the rapid adoption of pediatric 3D transesophageal echo.
The pressure is on for ASE and other societies to create a new CPT code for the use of interventional echocardiography during structural heart procedures.
Beyond amyloidosis, nuclear cardiology is also increasingly used to image inflammation and infection in the myocardium, especially in diseases such as cardiac sarcoidosis and myocarditis.
