Imaging

Knowing that interstitial lung abnormalities heighten interstitial lung disease and all-cause mortality risk, it is important that pulmonologists know how to recognize and distinguish these abnormalities.

SAN DIEGO — Establishing mandatory competencies for musculoskeletal ultrasound is necessary to improve its use in both rheumatology residency programs and clinical practice, a speaker said at ACR Convergence 2023.

SAN DIEGO — Monitoring of rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease remains highly variable and “suboptimal” in the real world, according to a speaker at ACR Convergence 2023.

With the current chest imaging technology, patients with suspected lung infections are unable to receive a specific diagnosis unless they undergo an invasive procedure and wait 2 to 3 days for their results, according to a press release.

HONOLULU — Follow-up high-resolution CT scans for veterans with incidental pulmonary nodules, initially assessed for unexplained dyspnea, revealed that nodule stability is common, according to research presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

Referral to diagnostic imaging decreased with use of an ultrasound protocol in patients with suspected pulmonary embolism, according to a presentation at the European Respiratory Society International Congress.

SAN DIEGO — Imaging and symptom rating scales offer physicians ample opportunity to follow patients with suspected myositis and “tease out” fast vs. slow progressors, noted a speaker at the 2023 Congress of Clinical Rheumatology West.

A significant number of patients in the United Kingdom who presented with dyspnea or hemoptysis did not receive guideline-concordant imaging during primary care visits, according to a recent study.

Early detection of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension may be achieved with use of predefined signs on a CT scan following acute pulmonary embolism diagnosis, according to results published in CHEST.

Age, sex, BMI, smoking history, nodule size and nodule location — notable factors linked to lung cancer — were also related to this diagnosis in adults with incidentally detected lung nodules, according to study results published in CHEST.