The National Institute for Health and Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended FibroScan, a non-invasive hepatic ultrasound scan, as an option for assessing liver damage from fibrosis and ...
You might want to reconsider hitting the drive-thru. In another stunning rebuke of a fast-food diet, researchers find it puts us at increased risk for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)—even ...
OXFORD, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Perspectum ® ’s LiverMultiScan ® significantly enhanced patient understanding of chronic liver disease (CLD) care in a first-of-its-kind study published in the ...
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new study shows that a simple, non-invasive “contrast enhanced ultrasound” (CEUS) scan can be more accurate and reliable than a more expensive MRI procedure for diagnosis ...
An ultrasound-guided liver biopsy is a routine procedure in which doctors remove a small piece of liver tissue for analysis in a lab. Your doctor might recommend this procedure if they suspect there ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . When primary care physicians interact with virtual specialists in hepatology, more of their patients have ...
A liver ultrasound is a noninvasive test a doctor orders to examine the liver, its blood vessels, and sometimes the gallbladder. Abnormal results may indicate a person has liver disease or signal an ...
Liver cancer leads to more number of human deaths nowadays. Patient survival chances can be increased by early detection of the tumour. Texture analysis based on moment features for CT liver scan ...
Okay, so chances are having a liver scan will not lead to being strip-searched; though if you live in New York, you might want to avoid taking public transportation for a while. A 34-year old New ...
What Are Stage III and Stage IV Ovarian Cancer? Stage III ovarian cancer is when the cancer is not just found in one or both ovaries but has spread outside the pelvis to the abdomen, nearby lymph ...
Told he had liver cancer, Roger Jackson feared the worst. ‘I thought, “Here we go, I’m going to die”,’ says the 80-year-old great-grandfather and retired sales manager. Patients in Roger’s situation ...