AJR Podcasts

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24874 Pei-Kang Wei, MD and Cinthia Cruz-Romero, MD discuss the importance of ultrasound as a reliable and affordable method to evaluate fatty liver and the applicability of ultrasound to evaluate fatty liver in various patient populations, both in children and adult.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24224 Kalen Riley, MD discusses a new AJR article in which the authors believe TI-RADS should be accounting for nodule location and that a revision to the scoring system should be considered.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.25124 Incidental infectious or inflammatory findings are commonly identified by lung cancer screening computed tomography but determine whether findings have little or no clinical consequence and which are significant enough to require further work-up is not always clear. Kerem Ozturk, MD discusses how adoption of a conservative management algorithm can standardize recommendations and reduce unnecessary imaging without increasing the risk of missing a malignancy.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24708 David Ballard, MD discusses an important contribution to the literature in assessing the ongoing debate of conventional vs. drug eluting bead transarterial chemoembolization.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.25210 Identifying primary pain generators with lumbar spine MRI can be a challenging task. Adequate patient symptom information is often lacking and its absence may allow radiologists astray in their own interpretations. Drew Guino, MD discusses the development of a patient symptom questionnaire appears to address this very issue, however.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24509 David Robinson, MD discusses an AJR pilot study exploring 18F-Fluciclovine PET/MRI for initial staging of prostate cancer and the effects of androgen deprivation therapy on 18F-Fluciclovine uptake.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24264 Giuseppe V. Toia, MD reviews a timely meta-analysis which defines the normal reference ranges for MRI-derived left ventricular strain in healthy adults.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24758 Kerem Ozturk, MD discusses why awareness of early chest CT findings is required for early detection and accurate diagnosis of immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy-related adverse events such as pneumonitis, new consolidation, worsening thoracic tumor burden, pleural/pericardial effusion, and pulmonary emboli in the emergency department.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24536 Tyler Richards, MD discusses an AJR article that found no significant increase in the intrinsic T1 signal in the globus pallidus and dentate nucleus after more than 10 administrations of gadobutrol in pediatric patients compared to matched-age gadolinium naïve control and discussion of similar imaging based and autopsy studies.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24801 In this podcast, Pei-Kang (Ken) Wei, MD and Diana Litmanovich, MD first summarized the study by Reeves et al. and then provided an in-depth discussion about the current status and future direction of utilizing chest radiograph as a guiding tool for clinical management. Key aspects of the discussion are the practicality and applicability of the scoring system developed by Reeves et al., chest radiograph as a more desirable modality for evaluating patients with COVID-19 compared to CT, and chest radiograph as an outcome predictor.