Background A major gap in the management of sarcoidosis is the lack of accessible and objective methods to measure disease activity. Since 90% of patients have pulmonary involvement, we explored if a ...

Sarcoidosis is a systemic granulomatous inflammatory disease of unknown etiology. It affects the lungs in over 90% of patients yet extra-pulmonary and multi-organ involvement is common. Spontaneous ...

Avelumab, is an anti-PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI). Like other ICI, avelumab can cause immune-related adverse events. Although rare, sarcoidosis-like granulomatous reactions have been ...

Approximately 5% of calcium stones are associated with hyperparathyroidism, vitamin D excess, hyperthyroidism, sarcoidosis, kidney tubular acidosis, multiple myeloma, Cushing’s disease and cancer.

A 59-year-old female patient presented with fever and dry cough. A chest CT scan showed a reversed halo sign (RHS) with nodular walls in the right upper lobe (Figure 1). In A, axial CT image of the ...

About 93 million CT scans are performed every year in the United States, according to IMV, a medical market research company that tracks imaging. More than half of those scans are for people 60 ...

"CT scans are the gold standard for detecting pneumonia, but repeated scans can expose patients to significant radiation." While the early diagnosis of lung infections in immunocompromised patients is ...

A research team led by Colorado State University has achieved a new milestone in 3D X-ray imaging technology. The scientists ...

Hospitals and imaging centers are now required to track and report radiation exposure from CT scans under new Medicare regulations. The rules, which began rolling out in January, come as ...

The scans are estimated to cause 2% of annual cancers — but new measures could keep radiation at safer levels.