Why Aren’t Some Long COVID Patients’ Lungs Healing?
A new study reveals that immune cells, typically involved in lung repair, may instead drive persistent damage and fibrosis in COVID patients, preventing proper healing.
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Why Aren’t Some Long COVID Patients’ Lungs Healing?
A new study reveals that immune cells, typically involved in lung repair, may instead drive persistent damage and fibrosis in COVID patients, preventing proper healing.
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Unexpectedly High Rate of Lung Nodules Found in Non-Smokers
Researchers discovered that 42% of non-smoking adults had lung nodules, with 11.1% of these cases involving clinically significant nodules typically associated with higher-risk groups.
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FDA Clears AI Software for Lung Segment Analysis in CT Scans
The technology performs an analysis of the lung tissue and the fissure completeness, supporting physicians in the diagnosis and documentation of pulmonary tissue images from CT thoracic datasets for each patient.
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4DMedical to Acquire Imbio to Bolster Lung Imaging Tech
4DMedical has entered into an agreement to acquire Imbio Inc, a provider of medical imaging analysis technologies for chronic lung and cardiothoracic diseases.
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FDA Clears 4DMedical’s CT-based Lung Function Scanning Software
The software scans and analyzes CT images, providing data on regional lung function using existing CT scanning equipment.
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Early CT Screening Skyrockets Long-term Lung Cancer Survival Rates
Diagnosing early-stage lung cancer with low-dose computed tomography screening drastically improves its cure rate measured over a 20-year period, according to a large-scale study.
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CT Scans Potentially Over-hospitalizing Pulmonary Embolism Patients
A new study suggests CT results alone may not confer as much risk as traditionally thought—a finding that will come as a surprise to most emergency physicians, according to one of the study’s authors.
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Targeting Mucus Plugs Could Help Prevent COPD Deaths
Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers conducted a study linking mucus plugs to higher mortality.
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Emphysema Development Affected by Exacerbations
Among emphysema patients who were former smokers, a greater number of COPD exacerbations was associated with a greater loss of lung density.
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FDA Clears Siemens Healthineers’ First-of-its-kind CT Scanning Device
The US FDA has cleared the Siemens Naeotom Alpha, the world’s first photon-counting computed tomography (CT) scanner.
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Using Artificial Intelligence for Faster Lung Cancer Diagnosis
An artificial intelligence (AI) program can spot signs of lung cancer on CT scans a year before they can be diagnosed with existing methods.
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How Does Reduced-Dose CT Compare to Standard CT for Detecting Lung Nodules?
A new study found that reduced-dose CT imaging was able to detect more than 90% of lung nodules in young adults.
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Reduced vs. Standard CT Dose for Lung Nodules in Children, Young Adults with Cancer
Reduced-dose CT depicts greater than 90% of lung nodules in children and young adults with cancer, identifying the presence of nodules with moderate sensitivity and high specificity.
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Lung Nodule Program Spots Lung Cancer Early
An incidental lung nodule program found lung cancer with higher frequency than the majority of low-dose CT scans, new research shows.
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Philips Works with NHS to Implement National COVID-19 Chest Imaging Database
The UK’s National COVID-19 Chest Imaging Database is a centralized database containing X-Ray, CT and MRI images from hospital patients across the country.
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Correlations Between COVID-19 Severity in Lungs, Related Neurological Conditions
CT lung imaging and MRI brain scans have detected a visual correlation between COVID-19 disease...
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CT Scan Screening Catches Most Lung Cancers at Early Stage, Study Finds
A new study found that CT scan screenings may uncover lung cancer at an early stage, when it can still be removed, rather than continuing to grow without detection.
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Lung Cancer Could be Mistaken for Coronavirus
The novel coronavirus left many people too afraid to visit healthcare facilities, which led to delays in lung cancer screening for many, according to a report from The Guardian.
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California Falls Short on Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Lung Cancer
California is a leader in reducing lung cancer cases, but it falls short on early diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Lack of screening is one reason why, reports the Los Angeles Times.
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Life-Saving Tactic In Detecting Lung Cancer Now Being Offered For Free in New York
Early lung cancer detection saves lives, but screening costs money and is inconvenient. A new screening tool aims to solve that problem, using a tractor-trailer to bring a hi-speed, low dose CT lung scanner to New Yorkers.
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Konica Minolta to Discuss Imaging Options for Diagnosing COPD, Lung Disease at RSNA 2019
Sessions at RSNA 2019 will focus on Konica Minolta’s imaging solutions for diagnosing and managing lung diseases like COPD.
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Extra Testing Doesn’t Improve Outcomes but Does Increase ER Stay
For patients with chest pain admitted to the ER, the use of coronary computed tomographic angiography (CCTA) or stress testing did not have a clinical benefit but did increase ER stay.
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Measuring Emphysema Severity with CT Can Predict Patient Mortality
The authors believe that, given the wide use of chest CT scans around the world, the predictive value of these measures on mortality risk is of substantial clinical importance.
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