Hand-held ultrasound provided a more accurate diagnosis of common CV abnormalities compared with physical examination, researchers found. The new study included 250 patients referred for a standard ...

You will be made to lie on an examination table and will be asked to loosen your garments depending on the area imaged. The doctor will ask you some basic questions about your general health. Will the ...

Ultrasound can help assess depth of skin lesions and tumors, help evaluate malignancies, and guide medication delivery.

Kidney disease often progresses silently, causing irreversible damage before symptoms appear. Simple tests like blood ...

For your abdominal ultrasound, we must ask that you have nothing to eat or drink eight hours prior to the exam. It is very important to be properly prepped for an abdominal ultrasound. If you are on ...

Joanne is brought into the emergency department by an ambulance at her local community hospital in Oklahoma City. She is having serious trouble breathing. While the attending physician is unsure ...

New ultrasound technology developed at Johns Hopkins can distinguish fluid from solid breast masses with near perfect ...

An ultrasound exam of the heel may be able to predict if a woman is at heightened risk for fractures due to osteoporosis, according to a new multicenter study. An ultrasound exam of the heel may be ...

Background: Tenosynovitis is widely accepted to be common in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and postulated to be the first manifestation of RA, but its true prevalence in early disease and in particular ...