Ultrasound‐MRI Correlation for Healing of Rotator Cuff Repairs Using Power Doppler, Sonographic Shear Wave Elastography and MR Signal Characteristics: A Pilot Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole L Nocera ◽  
Christopher J Burke ◽  
Soterios Gyftopoulos ◽  
Ronald S. Adler
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Rotator Cuff ◽  
Shear Wave ◽  
Power Doppler ◽  
Shear Wave Elastography ◽  
Signal Characteristics

Prospective assessment of liver stiffness by shear wave elastography in childhood obesity: a pilot study

Endocrine ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Domenico Corica ◽  
Antonio Bottari ◽  
Tommaso Aversa ◽  
Letteria Anna Morabito ◽  
Selenia Curatola ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Shear Wave ◽  
Liver Stiffness ◽  
Shear Wave Elastography ◽  
Prospective Assessment

Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography as a Measure of Porcine Hepatic Disease in Right Heart Dysfunction: A Pilot Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (11) ◽  
pp. 2393-2399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessie J. Hu ◽  
M. Yasir Qureshi ◽  
Matthew W. Urban ◽  
Rondell Graham ◽  
Meng Yin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Shear Wave ◽  
Shear Wave Elastography ◽  
Hepatic Disease ◽  
Right Heart ◽  
Heart Dysfunction ◽  
Right Heart Dysfunction

scholarly journals Pediatric Cardiac Shear Wave Elastography for Quantitative Assessment of Myocardial Stiffness: A Pilot Study in Healthy Controls

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (8) ◽  
pp. 1719-1729 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pengfei Song ◽  
Xiaojun Bi ◽  
Daniel C. Mellema ◽  
Armando Manduca ◽  
Matthew W. Urban ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Shear Wave ◽  
Quantitative Assessment ◽  
Shear Wave Elastography ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
Myocardial Stiffness

scholarly journals Quantifying extensibility of rotator cuff muscle with tendon rupture using shear wave elastography: A cadaveric study

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 131-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taku Hatta ◽  
Hugo Giambini ◽  
Yoshiaki Itoigawa ◽  
Alexander W. Hooke ◽  
John W. Sperling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rotator Cuff ◽  
Shear Wave ◽  
Tendon Rupture ◽  
Shear Wave Elastography ◽  
Cadaveric Study ◽  
Rotator Cuff Muscle

scholarly journals Shear wave elastography detects novel imaging biomarkers of aromatase inhibitor–induced joint pain: a pilot study

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (84) ◽  
pp. e1-e6
Author(s):  
Jessica A. Martinez ◽  
◽  
Mihra S. Taljanovic ◽  
Russell S. Witte ◽  
Andres A. Nuncio Zuniga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Aromatase Inhibitor ◽  
Postmenopausal Women ◽  
Shear Wave ◽  
Joint Pain ◽  
Power Doppler ◽  
Shear Wave Elastography ◽  
Imaging Biomarkers ◽  
Tendon Stiffness ◽  
Extensor Compartment

Aim: To determine whether differences in joint and tendon stiffness as measured by ultrasound shear wave elastography are present in breast cancer patients with aromatase inhibitor- associated arthralgias compared to age-comparable healthy control women. Methods: Postmenopausal women with stage I–III breast cancer who were taking adjuvant aromatase inhibitors and complained of joint pain were enrolled (n = 6). Postmenopausal women with no history of breast cancer, hormone treatment, or joint pain served as controls (n = 7). All subjects had bilateral hands and wrists evaluated by gray-scale and power Doppler ultrasound, and shear wave elastography ultrasound. Results: Patients with AI-associated arthralgias had significantly stiffer tendons than controls in the 1st extensor compartment (long axis; p = 0.001), 4th extensor compartment (long axis; p = 0.014), 3rd metacarpophalangeal joint (p = 0.002), the pooled values of the extensor compartments, both long (p = 0.044) and short axes (p = 0.035), and the pooled values for the metacarpophalangeal joints (p = 0.002). On ultrasound, the patients (but not controls) presented with hyperemia and increased tenosynovial fluid in the flexor and extensor tendon sheaths, and the median nerves were symptomatic and bifid; however, these differences were not statistically significant. Conclusions: This is the first study to identify increased tendon stiffness as a putative physiological characteristic of aromatase inhibitor–associated arthralgias. Future studies should determine whether increased tendon stiffness is a risk factor for the development of aromatase inhibitor–associated arthralgias, or a result of aromatase inhibitor treatment.

scholarly journals High-performance sonographical multimodal imaging of non cystic thyroid lesions: Chances of the preoperative diagnostics in relation to histopathology

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
M. Brandenstein ◽  
I. Wiesinger ◽  
F. Jung ◽  
C. Stroszczynski ◽  
E.M. Jung
Keyword(s):  
Shear Wave ◽  
Multimodal Imaging ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Power Doppler ◽  
Shear Wave Elastography ◽  
Arterial Phase ◽  
Multicenter Studies ◽  
Preoperative Diagnostics ◽  
High Resolution Power ◽  
Thyroid Lesions

AIM: To improve preoperative diagnostics of solid non-cystic thyroid lesions by using new high-performance ultrasound techniques: optimized B-mode morphology, elastography, Color-Coded Doppler-Sonography (CCDS) and contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) MATERIALS AND METHODS: In 33 cases solid, non-cystic thyroid lesions were rated as TIRADS 3 and up from conventional B-mode examinations. Additional high resolution Power Doppler including HR- and Glazing-Flow as optimized macrovascularization techniques, shear wave elastography and CEUS were performed on these patients by one experienced examiner. For CEUS a bolus of 1–2.4 ml Sulfurhexafluorid microbubbles (SonoVue®, Bracco, Milan, Italy) was injected into a cubital vein and then the distribution kinetics of the contrast agent were documented from the early arterial phase (10 to 15 seconds after injection) to the late venous phase (5 minutes after injection). Postoperative histopathology was the diagnostic gold standard as it provides the most reliable proof. RESULTS: 33 patients (13 males, 20 females; age 29 –77 years; mean 55 years; SD 13 years) were included in this study. 28 of them had benign regressive thyroid nodules, 3 had adenomas and 4 were diagnosed with carcinomas (3 were histologically identified as papillary thyroid carcinomas, one as a medullary thyroid carcinoma). The volume of the thyroid gland ranged from 6.6 to 401.3 cm2 (mean 72.6±92.0 cm2). The adenomas diameters ranged from 9 to 40 mm (mean 22±16 mm) and the carcinoma diameters ranged from 19 to 33 mm (mean 26±6 mm). The 3 adenomas had different echogenicities: One was completely echofree, one was hypoechoic and one isoechoic. The 4 carcinomas however were equally characterized as hypoechoic and echofree. Two of three adenomas and all of the carcinomas showed an incomplete or diffuse margin. Micro-calcifications were found in one adenoma and in every carcinoma. However, no micro-calcifications were observed in cases of benign regressive nodules. Performing shear-wave elastography the adenomas showed lower values than the carcinomas: The tissue velocity of the adenomas ranged from 2.86 m/s to 3.85 m/s (mean 3.32±0.5 m/s) and in carcinomas from 3.89 m/s to 5.66 m/s (mean 4.18±0.3 m/s). Marginal hypervascularization was detected in two adenomas after applying CCDS. One adenoma was hypovascularized. The four carcinomas showed an irregular extreme hypervascularization along their margins as well as an irregular central normo- or hypervascularization in CCDS. The additional HR-Flow helped reducing artefacts. In CEUS the dynamic capillary microvascularization of all carcinomas was very irregular with early enhancement and followed by partial or complete wash-out. In CEUS two adenomas had no wash-out and the other one showed a partial wash-out. CONCLUSION: Using modern multimodal imaging offers new possibilities for the differentiation between benign and malignant thyroid lesions. It is a very important diagnostic tool in addition to the B-Mode TIRADS classification and eases the decision between TIRADS 3, 4 and 5. However, additional multicenter studies are required for more detailed evaluations.

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