Biopsy

Compared with systematic biopsy, MRI-directed targeted biopsy reduces the risk of overdiagnosis of prostate cancer for men with elevated prostate-specific antigen levels, according to researchers.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In a Healio video exclusive, Amrit Kamboj, MD, a gastroenterologist at Mayo Clinic Rochester, reported a predictive model accurately identified patients’ likelihood of eosinophilic esophagitis.

BOSTON — Excisional biopsies of soft tissue sarcoma of the hand are associated with more positive margins and a longer time to patients’ first intervention vs. incisional/needle biopsies, results of a study showed.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center have developed an automated liquid biopsy test that can detect cancer DNA in the blood of patients with metastatic breast cancer within 5 hours.

LONDON — Ozempic improved cardiometabolic parameters and markers of liver injury yet failed to improve liver fibrosis in patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and compensated cirrhosis, according to late-breaker data presented here.

SAN DIEGO — Although percutaneous liver biopsy is still the “gold standard,” advances in techniques and increased use of endoscopic ultrasound-guided biopsy may soon change that dynamic, according to a debate at Digestive Disease Week 2022.

Biopsy details, including the operator’s training and any intra-articular steroids used prior to the procedure, should be reported in every study involving synovial tissue, according to new EULAR points to consider.

Vibration-controlled transient elastography and fibrosis-4 index are effective alternatives to liver biopsy when evaluating risk for liver-related events in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, according to study results.

The presence of advanced tertiary lymphoid tissues in protocol biopsies correlated with decline in graft function among kidney transplant recipients, according to data published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Vascular ultrasound, using high-end equipment and optimized settings, may be an effective replacement for temporal artery biopsy as a first-line diagnostic tool in patients with suspected giant cell arteritis, according to a Danish study.