Sometimes, doctors find a way to use technology that hits all the right notes -- it’s easy on your body, gives fast results, and doesn’t cause any side effects. That’s just the case with Doppler ...

Congenital heart defects are the most common type of birth defect, affecting nearly 1% of births per year in the United States, according to the CDC. About one in four infants with a congenital heart ...

What is Fetal Heart Ultrasound? Fetal echocardiography helps in diagnosis of cardiac birth defects, and is similar to the ultrasound procedure during pregnancy. Also known as fetal heart ultrasound or ...

Researchers have found that utilizing Doppler ultrasound to assess blood flow in small unborn babies is instrumental in evaluating the functionality of the placenta. About 10 percent of unborn babies ...

Mrs MG is a 61-year-old patient who presented an inferior acute ST elevation myocardial infarction in July 2009. She received a bare metal stent in the proximal right coronary artery. No significant ...

From January 1999 to October 2002, we prospectively studied 31 patients (mean age 57 years, range 36-82 years) with a cystic pancreatic lesion at the conventional ultrasound. Eleven patients presented ...

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Background The pathogenesis of the Osgood-Schlatter's disease (OSD) is still debated. The fragmentation of the ossification centre has been questioned as a definitive sign of OSD and has been seen as ...

Amid a rise in the use of cosmetic fillers -- commonly injected in the face for anti-aging effects -- Doppler high-frequency ultrasound (HFUS) picked up "highly variable" findings in filler-related ...

To conduct a pilot study assessing a neonatologist's accuracy in diagnosing patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) using compact, portable ultrasound after limited training. There were 24 exams. Compared to ...