AJR Podcasts

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.22.27595 Lung cancer screening and the use of Lung-RADS is becoming more prevalent. Gregory Michael Lee, MD discusses an article on applying strategies that better identify benign intrapulmonary lymph nodes and using volumetric-based measurements result in improved specificity without loss in sensitivity, as compared to Lung-RADS version 1.1.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/full/10.2214/AJR.21.27195

We are moving towards patient-centered care and thus, it is important to listen to patients' feedback. Hyunjoong William Kim discusses an article that evaluated the role of an individual hospital's effort to make the provider reviews from patients transparent and public on its website; specifically, it looked at if there were any score differences between the radiologists and the non-radiology physicians. Radiologists, particularly those who are involved in direct patient care, may be subjected to similar patient review and ratings mechanisms as other clinical providers and this article is a good starting point to think about the ever-changing healthcare field.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/full/10.2214/AJR.21.27161

Management of nonmalignant architectural distortion on DBT remains controversial. Alexandra Millet, MD discusses study results suggesting that imaging surveillance rather than surgery can be considered for architectural distortion on DBT yielding radial scar without atypia or other concordant benign pathologies without atypia.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.21.27234

Rosalind Gerson, PGY3, discusses a recent AJR article that assessed inter-observer agreement for multiple qualitative and quantitative findings in chronic pediatric pancreatitis, finding fair or moderate agreement for most qualitative features, and good inter-rater agreement for pancreatic duct diameter on both MR and CT.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.21.27301

Several prognostic scores have been applied for predicting survival after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) placement to guide patient selection. In this episode, John Do, MD speaks with TIPS expert Dr. Jonas Redmond, interventional radiologist and associate professor at the University of California San Diego, to discuss the results of a recently published study in AJR that supports the utility of FIPS score in differentiating patients who are optimal candidates.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.21.27147

Early diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension are crucial to prevent chronic progression and a poor prognosis. The nonspecific presenting symptoms and need for right heart catheterization may contribute to a delay in diagnosis. In this episode, Sara Tedla MD, discusses a recently published study in AJR, which evaluates the utility of cardiac chamber volumetric measurements based on non-gated CT pulmonary angiography and the updated 2018 pulmonary hypertension criteria.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.21.27135

Wenhui Zhou, MD, PhD reviews a recent AJR article examining the diagnostic performance of six different imaging modalities in the detection of sporadic pheochromocytoma, and the science behind several radiotracers used in the detection of pheochromocytoma. This study incentivizes the use of automated MR Elastography to screen for hepatic fibrosis in nonalcoholic hepatosteatotitis.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.21.27129

Xiaochen D. Liu, MD discusses an article that assesses the utility of preoperative shear wave elastography measurements of the supraspinatus muscle to predict successful rotator cuff repair, including comparison with MRI-based measures.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.21.26935

Ragheed Al-Dulaimi, MD discusses an AJR article that assesses utility of second-largest lesion size on parathyroid CT for differentiating single-gland disease from multigland disease.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.21.26806

Post-embolization syndrome (abdominal pain, nausea, emesis, and fever) is the most common adverse effect of liver embolotherapy and is the primary reason for post-procedure hospitalization. Liwei Jiang, MD, discusses a new study that links cirrhosis with the severity of post-embolization syndrome after bland hepatic artery embolization. The findings may help select patients for early discharge after the procedure.