Sentences with phrase «ultrasound study of»

• Echocardiography — A complete ultrasound study of the heart, evaluating the four heart valves; strength and thickness of the heart muscle; the pericardium; the great veins and arteries; and the diastolic (filling) and systolic (pumping) function of the heart.

Ultrasound studies of the macaques» hearts showed that the ejection fraction, an indication of the hearts ability to pump blood, improved in some of the treated animals but not all.

Not exact matches

Studies have shown improved accuracy with the use of ultrasound to guide injections into joints.

A study published in 2005 used ultrasound to look at the position of more than 1,500 babies of first - time mothers over the course of labor.

Ultrasound studies have shown that this is due to the stretching of the milk ducts as the milk is released.

The study, completed in 2005, focused on 23 young black fathers» experiences of antenatal services in mainstream ultrasound and at teenage parents» clinics run by King's College Hospital in south London.

I asked the author about this and she swept it aside with something along the lines of: since there was no trend towards improvement, everybody has just decided not to study the issue any more and let all big babies get as big as they want to get because ultrasound is worthless.

It is based on a new model of infant suck, developed out of the latest ultrasound studies.

Studies published since then (which also used ultrasound to confirm position) also show that a baby's position at the onset of labor does not predict his position at birth.

Through transabdominal ultrasound, during the study of orbital cavities, the lens could not be visualized bilaterally (Figs. 1, 2).

The studies used ultrasound and detected the grimacing faces of the fetuses.

A commercial ultrasound can take an hour or more to get a keepsake - able image of your baby, and there are no studies that have examined the effects of frequent or sustained use of ultrasound on a growing fetus.

This book covers the newest data in the structure and function of the nipple and areola gathered from computer reconstruction of sectioned tissue, ultrasound, and other study modalities.

The practice of ultrasound during pregnancy is highly controversial with authorities acknowledging that there are clear hazards as found in animal and cell studies.

In five studies that were done, the accuracy of ultrasounds to predict extra-large babies was only 20 to 30 %.

The Catch - 22 is that human studies on the effects of ultrasound in the United States and other Western nations are discouraged and virtually banned because such research is considered unethical.

Ask your physician or midwife to check, but request confirmation through ultrasound, as physicians miss 30 percent of breech babies, according to an Australian study.

However, as a professor of obstetrics and the leading protagonist for ultrasound, it is astonishing that he seems not to have considered the following studies.

A later study carried out in London5 randomised 2475 women to receive routine Doppler ultrasound examination of the umbilical and uterine arteries at 19 - 22 weeks and at 32 weeks of pregnancy compared with women who received standard care without Doppler ultrasound.

Scientists are still studying the range of fetal hearing and possible side - effects of ultrasounds.

MRI of the cervix is more accurate than ultrasound at predicting if some women will have a preterm birth, according to a new study from Italy appearing in the online edition of Radiology.

Studies using ultrasound have shown that fetuses exhibit REM sleep as early as the 23rd week of gestation.

The researchers believe that a larger, multicenter study is needed to better define the potential role of focused ultrasound in managing Parkinson's disease.

In light of the late stage when pancreatic cancer is typically diagnosed and the significant rate of people diagnosed with acute pancreatitis that are subsequently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the study's authors suggest that patients over the age of 40 with acute pancreatitis should be evaluated for pancreatic cancer with esophageal ultrasound.

E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, vice president for medical affairs at the University of Maryland and the John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, says, «This study demonstrates that the MRI / ultrasound fusion biopsy technique offers benefits when compared to the current standard of care to diagnose clinically significant prostate cancer.

Surgical oncologists, or cancer surgeons, usually remove breast cancers by relying on tactile feedback and radiologic images of the tumor, such as mammograms and ultrasound images, said M. Catherine Lee, MD, FACS, coauthor of the first study and associate professor of surgery at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Fla..

On almost every measure, prenatal ultrasounds didn't seem related to a risk of developing autism, a recent study finds.

«Our study shows the significant impact of adding carotid plaque measurement using vascular ultrasound and coronary calcium scoring with CT scan to our conventional assessment for cardiovascular disease,» says Roxana Mehran, MD, the study's co-lead author and Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Research and Clinical Trials at the Zena and Michael A. Weiner Cardiovascular Institute at Mount Sinai Heart at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Magnani and her colleagues studied the Texas faults using images of the subsurface similar to ultrasound scans.

Current standards for ultrasound evaluation of fetal growth may lead to misclassification of up to 15 percent of fetuses of minority mothers as being too small, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other institutions.

The growth chart weights were derived from a study by Frank Hadlock and his colleagues, who compiled ultrasound measurements of 139 pregnancies of predominantly middle - class white women during the 1980s.

«Real time, image - guided ultrasound nerve blocks have revolutionized the practice of regional anesthesia,» said Dr. Faraj Abdallah, an anesthesiologist at St. Michael's Hospital and lead author of the study.

The technique, called low - intensity focused ultrasound pulsation, was pioneered by Alexander Bystritsky, a UCLA professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences in the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and a co-author of the study.

«A high - resolution ultrasound revealed harmonized pumping where iPS cells were introduced to the previously damaged heart tissue,» says Satsuki Yamada, M.D., Ph.D., first author of the study.

«For men initially diagnosed with low - risk prostate cancer, MRI - ultrasound confirmatory biopsy including targeting of suspicious lesions seen on MRI results in frequent detection of tumors,» the study states.

«Recent studies have reported supplemental cancer detection rates of 1.9 per 1,000 women screened with automated whole breast ultrasound and 1.2 to 2.8 per 1,000 women screened with digital breast tomosynthesis, so our finding of an additional 8.8 cancers per 1,000 women makes MBI a very compelling option for women who elect supplemental screening,» says Dr. Rhodes.

Ultrasound technologies make visible what remains hidden from our naked eyes: Physicians study tissue changes in our bodies with the aid of sonography; submarines equipped use sonar systems to get their bearings in the darkness of the deep sea; and for materials and components testing, ultrasound provides a non-destructive alternative to costly technologies that are not real - timUltrasound technologies make visible what remains hidden from our naked eyes: Physicians study tissue changes in our bodies with the aid of sonography; submarines equipped use sonar systems to get their bearings in the darkness of the deep sea; and for materials and components testing, ultrasound provides a non-destructive alternative to costly technologies that are not real - timultrasound provides a non-destructive alternative to costly technologies that are not real - time capable.

Most knowledge of the planet's internal structure comes from studying seismic waves, which give a kind of ultrasound image.

The study entitled «Feasibility of photoacoustic / ultrasound imaging of synovitis in finger joints using a point - of - care system» was conducted and published by Pim van den Berg, Khalid Daoudi and Wiendelt Steenbergen from the University of Twente research institute MIRA in cooperation with rheumatologist Hein Moens of Ziekenhuis group Twente.

Carol Gillis, a longtime veterinarian and researcher who specializes in soft - tissue injuries in racehorses, says that the more than 22,000 ultrasound images she has captured in her studies and clinical practice have convinced her that with a tightly regimented exercise program, tendons and ligaments will heal, producing strong, well - organized fibers — all without the use of stem cells.

This does not happen in procedures using the CUSA (Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator) ultrasound device, as study leader Shahrokh Shariat, Head of the University Department of Urology at the MedUni Vienna and Vienna General Hospital, explains: «With the CUSA ultrasound device, the kidney continues to be perfused with blood during the surgical procedure.

A 2014 behavioral study of expectant fathers showed that midpregnancy ultrasound imaging was a «magic moment» in the dads» emerging connection with their baby.

Yuri T. Didenko and Kenneth S. Suslick of the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign studied single bubbles in water subjected to ultrasound and, for the first time, established an energy inventory for the collapsing spheres.

The current studies are far less invasive, using surface ultrasound directed at the site of the clot from outside the body, which could potentially be performed by a medical technician.

«Our first study demonstrated that the fundamental physics of ultrasound allowed for very, very small implants that could record and communicate neural data,» said Maharbiz.

The careful choice of the pig model as well as use of readily available microbubbles and ultrasound was instrumental in studies moving to clinical trials.

A new study shows that the use of ultrasound testing rather than x-rays or CT scans in the ICU reduces patient radiation exposure and lowers costs of care.

The women will undergo an ultrasound examination of the cervix twice during the study: once at 20 weeks of pregnancy and then four weeks later.

Dr. Oks and her colleagues studied medical charts covering 3 months of data comparing chest x-rays, CT scans, and ultrasound between two independent but similar medical intensive care units staffed by the same medical house staff in one health - care system.

An Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology study by Kypros Nicolaides, MD, of the Harris Birthright Research Centre for Fetal Medicine at King's College London in England, and his colleagues is the first to prospectively demonstrate the feasibility of routine screening for trisomies 21, 18, and 13 by cfDNA testing.