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Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine : Official Journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine

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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Daniel Won, James Walker, Russ Horowitz, Sandeep Bharadwaj, Edward Carlton, Helena Gabriel
OBJECTIVES: The growth in ultrasound usage necessitates concurrent growth in the number of sonographers. Despite the increasing importance of ultrasound, there is a shortage of sonographers in the United States that has never been specifically quantified. This study examines recent trends in the number of ultrasound exams, sonography graduates, open sonographer positions, and wages. METHODS: This retrospective study uses public databases and surveys including the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), and Zippia, a human resources platform to determine metrics...
March 27, 2024: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine: Official Journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38526138/youth-athletes-with-sever-s-disease-exhibit-altered-achilles-tendon-ultrasound-characteristics-a-retrospective-case-control-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shawn L Hanlon, Kristin E Whitney, Alexandra F DeJong Lempke
OBJECTIVES: Calcaneal apophysitis (Sever's disease) is an overuse condition caused by repetitive traction stress to the calcaneal apophysis. Whether Achilles tendon morphology is altered in this young patient population remains unknown. Therefore, we aimed to identify differences in Achilles tendon morphology between youth athletes diagnosed with calcaneal apophysitis and healthy controls. METHODS: This retrospective chart review included 46 patients (n = 23 Sever's disease, 15F/8M, 12...
March 25, 2024: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine: Official Journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38516753/median-nerve-shear-wave-elastography-is-associated-with-the-neurophysiological-severity-of-carpal-tunnel-syndrome
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lauri Martikkala, Antti Pemmari, Sari-Leena Himanen, Katri Mäkelä
OBJECTIVES: This study examines the associations between the median nerve (MN) shear wave elastography (SWE), the MN cross-sectional area (CSA), patient's symptoms, and the neurophysiological severity of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). The most appropriate site to perform SWE was also tested. METHODS: This prospective study comprised 86 wrists of 47 consecutive patients who volunteered for MN ultrasound after an electrodiagnostic study. The neurophysiological severity of CTS was assessed according to the results of a nerve conduction study (NCS)...
March 22, 2024: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine: Official Journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38504399/neuromuscular-ultrasound-in-polyneuropathies
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REVIEW
Yasmin K Nasr-Eldin, Michael S Cartwright, Ahmed Hamed, Lamia Hamdy Ali, Ahmed M Abdel-Nasser
Neuromuscular ultrasound is a painless, radiation-free, high-resolution imaging technique for assessing the peripheral nervous system. It can accurately depict changes in the nerves and muscles of individuals with neuromuscular conditions, and it is therefore a robust diagnostic tool for the assessment of individuals with polyneuropathies. This review will outline the typical ultrasonographic changes found in a wide variety of polyneuropathies. In general, demyelinating conditions result in greater nerve enlargement than axonal conditions, and acquired conditions result in more patchy nerve enlargement compared to diffuse nerve enlargement in hereditary conditions...
March 19, 2024: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine: Official Journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38497687/discordance-therapeutic-protocol-of-cystic-echinococcosis-with-who-guideline-a-descriptive-study-based-on-liver-ultra-sonographic-data-in-north-khorasan-province-northeastern-of-iran
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Reza Shafiei, Mina Sadat Mohajerzadeh, Hajar Farah Abad Masomi, Maryam Tavakoli, Habibollah Turki, Nima Firouzeh
BACKGROUND: Cystic echinococcosis (CE), a helminth-associated zoonosis caused by Echinococcus granulosus, poses a significant public health problem, particularly in pastoral-rearing regions. The lack of uniform guidelines led to variations in CE management. Based on ultrasound data, the World Health Organization Informal Working Group on Echinococcosis (WHO-IWGE) classification system categorizes cysts into active, transitional, and inactive groups. This study assesses whether the therapeutic approach from liver human operation cases in North Khorasan province aligns with the WHO-IWGE reference based on ultrasound data...
March 18, 2024: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine: Official Journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38482881/evaluation-of-the-prognosis-of-patients-with-acute-respiratory-distress-syndrome-at-the-emergency-department-based-on-the-lung-ultrasound-score
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ertuğrul Altuğ, İbrahim Halil Toksul, Adem Çakir, Kemal Şener, Semih Korkut, Mücahit Kapci, Ramazan Güven
OBJECTIVES: Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a respiratory disease characterized by a high rate of mortality. Determining the prognosis of this disease is therefore important. Lung ultrasonography has found increased use, especially in the recent years. This study aimed to score patients diagnosed with ARDS at the emergency department using point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS)-Lung and to investigate the prognosis of patients with ARDS using a scoring system. METHODS: This study was designed as a single-center prospective study...
March 14, 2024: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine: Official Journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38477076/the-size-differences-of-breast-cancer-and-benign-tumors-measured-by-two-dimensional-ultrasound-and-contrast-enhanced-ultrasound
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yang Tian, Weizhen Wang, Yanbin Hu, Fei Chen, Zheng Liu, Liangzi Li, Jiawei Tang
OBJECTIVES: Ultrasound (US) imaging has been observed to underestimate tumor size in clinical practice. This study aims to compare the size measurements of breast cancer and benign tumors using two-dimensional ultrasound (2DUS) and contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS). METHODS: The study included 42 clinically confirmed breast cancer and 47 benign breast tumors. Two experienced physicians independently measured the maximal longitudinal and transverse diameters of the masses in 2DUS and CEUS...
March 13, 2024: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine: Official Journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38469913/interaction-between-microbubbles-and-microwave-ablation-a-phantom-and-rabbit-model
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Xinyu Zhong, Xinghao Zhang, Yuting Cao, Ping Zhou
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to explore the interactions between microbubbles and microwave ablation (MWA). METHODS: The study employed custom-made phantoms (in vitro) and white New Zealand rabbits (in vivo). MWA was performed with or without microbubbles in the phantoms (2 × 105 particles mL-1 ) and rabbit livers (intravenous injection of 0.05 mL/kg SonoVue). During the MWA, K-type thermocouple probes were used to monitor the MWA-induced temperature increase...
March 12, 2024: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine: Official Journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38465462/post-covid-19-fetal-cardiac-morphology-and-systolic-evaluation-in-infected-pregnant-women-by-fetal-heart-quantification-technology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Feihu Zhu, Yueshu Zhao, Juan Wu, Ming Wang, Ziqi Zhu, Lingling Zhang
OBJECTIVES: Due to the government's liberalization of epidemic control, the current 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has started to spread widely within China. This study aimed to use the fetal heart quantification (fetal HQ) technique to assess the cardiac function and morphology of the fetuses of pregnant women diagnosed with COVID-19 in the early stages of pregnancy. METHODS: Exactly 86 pregnant women diagnosed with COVID-19 infection in early pregnancy (COVID-19 group) and 90 healthy pregnant women (control group) who underwent fetal echocardiography were prospectively included in this study...
March 11, 2024: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine: Official Journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38459670/comparison-of-dry-needling-and-cold-spray-stretching-treatments-by-ultrasonography-and-electrophysiology-prospective-randomized-controlled-trial
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Busra Ustun, Elem Yorulmaz, Duygu Geler-Kulcu
OBJECTIVES: To compare the efficacy of dry needling (DN) and cold-spray-stretching treatments using surface electromyography (sEMG) and ultrasound (US) in the treatment of patients with myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) with active trigger point (ATrP) in the upper trapezius muscle. METHODS: This prospective randomized single-blind study included 60 MPS patients aged 18-65 years who have ATrP in the upper trapezius muscle. Patients were randomized into two treatment groups as DN and cold spray stretching...
March 8, 2024: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine: Official Journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38456324/ultrasonography-for-the-detection-of-osteomyelitis-in-pediatric-patients-with-soft-tissue-infection-a-pilot-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Takahiro Hosokawa, Kuntaro Deguchi, Haruka Takei, Yumiko Sato, Yutaka Tanami, Eiji Oguma
OBJECTIVES: To demonstrate the usefulness of ultrasonography for differentiating soft tissue infections with or without osteomyelitis in pediatric patients who underwent ultrasonography and subsequent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). METHODS: Twenty-three patients were classified into 2 groups: 12 patients with and 11 patients without osteomyelitis based on MRI. Osteomyelitis using ultrasound is characterized by the presence of bone cortex irregularity and/or subperiosteal abscess formation...
March 8, 2024: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine: Official Journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38444253/ultrasound-of-the-ulnar-nerve-a-pictorial-review-part-2-pathological-ultrasound-findings
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Marco Becciolini, Christopher Pivec, Andrea Raspanti, Georg Riegler
This is the second part of a two-part article in which we focus on the ultrasound (US) appearance of the pathological ulnar nerve (UN) and its main branches. Findings in a wide range of our pathological cases are presented with high-resolution US images obtained with the latest-generation US machines and transducers.
March 5, 2024: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine: Official Journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38440926/acoustic-activation-imaging-with-intravenous-perfluoropropane-nanodroplets-results-in-selective-bioactivation-of-the-risk-area
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shouqiang Li, Cheng Chen, John Lof, Elizabeth A Stolze, Jiri Sklenar, Xucai Chen, John J Pacella, Flordeliza S Villanueva, Terry O Matsunaga, E Carr Everbach, Stanley J Radio, Sherry N Westphal, Sruti Shiva, Feng Xie, Xiaoping Leng, Thomas R Porter
BACKGROUND: Acoustically activatable perfluoropropane droplets (PD) can be formulated from commercially available microbubble preparations. Diagnostic transthoracic ultrasound frequencies have resulted in acoustic activation (AA) predominately within myocardial infarct zones (IZ). OBJECTIVE: We hypothesized that the AA area following acute coronary ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) would selectively enhance the developing scar zone, and target bioeffects specifically to this region...
March 5, 2024: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine: Official Journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38433458/successful-implementation-of-the-aium-standardized-4-year-residency-ultrasound-curriculum-in-obstetrics-and-gynecology-lessons-learned-and-way-forward
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Reem S Abu-Rustum, Margarita Berwick, Jessica Heft
BACKGROUND: Significant disparities in sonographic education exist in Obstetrics and Gynecology programs in the United States. To address the lack of standardization in ultrasound teaching, the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) assembled a multi-society task force in 2018 which resulted in the publication of a Consensus Report outlining a standardized ultrasound curriculum and competency assessment. OBJECTIVES: The primary objective of the study was to implement the AUIM standardized curriculum within an Obstetrics and Gynecology residency program at a tertiary medical center, and report on the early implementation experience...
March 3, 2024: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine: Official Journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38421090/erratum
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February 29, 2024: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine: Official Journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38421056/association-of-intrauterine-device-malposition-with-previous-cesarean-delivery-and-related-uterine-anatomical-changes
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Georgios Doulaveris, Jessica Jou, Wendy K Leung, Emnonila Bircaj, Theofano Orfanelli, Jessica Atrio, Pe'er Dar, Ohad Rotenberg
OBJECTIVES: We sought to determine the association between intrauterine device (IUD) malposition and previous cesarean delivery (CD) and related uterine anatomical changes. METHODS: A retrospective cohort of all persons with an IUD presenting for two- and three-dimensional pelvic ultrasonography over 2 years, for any gynecologic indication, was compiled. IUD malposition was defined as IUD partially or completely positioned outside the endometrial cavity. Uterine position, uterine flexion, and cesarean scar defect (CSD) size were assessed...
February 29, 2024: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine: Official Journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38414281/analyzing-gene-expression-after-administration-of-low-intensity-therapeutic-ultrasound-in-human-islet-cells
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
John Hill, James Messina, Aleksandar Jeremic, Vesna Zderic
OBJECTIVES: Diabetes mellitus is a complex heterogenous metabolic disease that significantly affects the world population. Although many treatments exist, including medications such as metformin, sulfonylureas, and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP) receptor agonist, there is growing interest in finding alternative methods to noninvasively treat this disease. It has been previously shown that low-intensity ultrasound stimulation of pancreatic β-cells in mice can elicit insulin secretion as a potential treatment for this disease...
February 27, 2024: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine: Official Journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38411352/super-resolution-ultrasound-imaging-for-monitoring-the-therapeutic-efficacy-of-a-vascular-disrupting-agent-in-an-animal-model-of-breast-cancer
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kenneth Hoyt
OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the use of super-resolution ultrasound (SRUS) imaging for the early detection of tumor response to treatment using a vascular-disrupting agent (VDA). METHODS: A population of 28 female nude athymic mice (Charles River Laboratories) were implanted with human breast cancer cells (MDA-MB-231, ATCC) in the mammary fat pad and allowed to grow. Ultrasound imaging was performed using a Vevo 3100 scanner (FUJIFILM VisualSonics Inc) equipped with the MX250 linear array transducer immediately before and after receiving bolus injections of a microbubble (MB) contrast agent (Definity, Lantheus Medical Imaging) via the tail vein...
February 27, 2024: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine: Official Journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38404126/cranial-point-of-care-ultrasound-for-neonatal-providers-a-feasibility-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sarah E Kolnik, Annika Sahota, Thomas R Wood, Kendell German, Mihai Puia-Dumitrescu, Ulrike Mietzsch, Manjiri Dighe, Janessa B Law
OBJECTIVE: Despite strong evidence for its utility in clinical management and diagnosis of intracranial hemorrhage (ICH), the use of neonatal cranial point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has not been standardized in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in the United States. The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of training NICU providers to perform cranial POCUS by tracking the quality of image acquisition following training. METHODS: Observational single-center cohort study of cranial POCUS images obtained by trained neonatal practitioners (attendings, fellows, and advanced practice providers) using a protocol developed by a radiologist and neonatologist...
February 25, 2024: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine: Official Journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38400537/an-improved-k-nearest-neighbor-algorithm-for-recognition-and-classification-of-thyroid-nodules
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Xuesi Ma, Xiang Han, Lina Zhang
OBJECTIVES: To complete the task of automatic recognition and classification of thyroid nodules and solve the problem of high classification error rates when the samples are imbalanced. METHODS: An improved k-nearest neighbor (KNN) algorithm is proposed and a method for automatic thyroid nodule classification based on the improved KNN algorithm is established. In the improved KNN algorithm, we consider not only the number of class labels for various classes of data in KNNs, but also the corresponding weights...
February 23, 2024: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine: Official Journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
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