Each patient underwent both the 14-zone and 12-zone lung ultrasound ... line. nLUS 14 assigns a maximum score of five points and a minimum score of zero points for each region, with 14 regions and a ...

Trained health care professionals (THCPs), including medical assistants, respiratory therapists, and nurses, with artificial intelligence (AI) assistance can achieve lung ultrasound (LUS ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — Despite new medication, cystic fibrosis often leads to permanent lung damage. Researchers have discovered that the disease causes changes in the immune system early in life ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — Researchers have designed process that uses ultrasound to modify the behavior of cancer-fighting T cells by increasing their cell permeability. They targeted freshly isolated ...

ccdhb.org.nz Background Initial studies on the use of ultrasound in the detection and sampling of supraclavicular lymph nodes in patients with suspected lung cancer show this to be a promising ...

B-scan ultrasound can effectively differentiate between peripapillary hyperreflective ovoid mass-like structures and optic disc drusen. In a comparative study of ultrasound characteristics of PHOMS ...

Two patients are described who developed pneumothoraces more than 24 hours after computed tomography (CT) guided percutaneous fine needle aspiration lung biopsies. The pneumothoraces required ...

An ultrasound device attached to the scope (endobronchial ultrasound ... Tumor-specific biomarkers also hold some promise when combined with CT lung cancer screening. When a tumor is present in the ...

The iron lung, conceptualized in the late 1920s, was most notably the first line of defense against polio during the epidemics that occurred between 1948 to 1955. The device saved the lives of ...

Lung cancer liver metastases are tumors that form in the liver from cancer cells that have broken away from the primary cancer and spread through the blood or lymphatic system. The liver is a common ...