Ultrasound

Jessica is a 31yo, G4 P0120, who was seen for a follow-up ultrasound and consultation due to her prior obstetrical history. Her 1st pregnancy in 2014 was an early first trimester spontaneous pregnancy loss which was then followed by a 30 week IUFD in 2015 that will be discussed further below. Her last pregnancy in 2016 was complicated by a partial mole by her report. She did undergo noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) in this pregnancy that returned low-risk male and she otherwise denies any…

patients that he was to see that afternoon, one of his patients was given an ultrasound and biopsy, then an MRI for a lump that was suspected to be thyroid cancer, though an ultrasound was suggested to be the best way to image an thyroid cancer. The doing more on the doctor’s end was rather not a significantly appropriate approach. The time and money spent on the MRI, could have just well been spent in a follow-up of the ultrasound, given a diagnosis and progressed towards a treatment. I may…

Mindy is a 31yo, G2 P1001, who was seen for an ultrasound evaluation for dating and fetal anatomy assessment. This is the patient’s first ultrasound. Overall, she denies any major medical disorders. She reportedly is hypothyroid but is currently not on treatment. I am uncertain as to whether or not she has had a thyroid study performed. She states that her primary issue has been heartburn and was told to try some TUMS. She also has had some nausea and is on Unisom and vitamin B6. Based on…

bleeding throughout the weekend but on Monday, earlier this week, the bleeding stopped. She has had a little spotting today but no significant bleeding. There was a mention on her scan in the clinic that there could have been a twin pregnancy. On ultrasound there is a live…

Neoplastic disease refers to excessive cell division, there are many things that can cause the formation of atypical bodies of tissue also known as neoplasms. A neoplasm can occur anywhere in the body and it is known as a tumor. Breast cancer is a neoplastic disease that starts in the tissues of the breast. Over the course of a life time, 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. Just like many other types of cancers, there are many risk factors that unfortunately cannot be changed no…

in the insertion of the catheter which is evidence-based practice. During the patient’s respiratory and cardiac distress a ultrasound technician was using ultrasound for emergency diagnosis. According to Hong-Xia Wang and colleagues (2014), intravascular ultrasound therapy should be used to diagnose myocardial infarctions in an emergency situation. Consequently, the ultrasound technician taking diagnostic pictures however, she was appropriate in that she did not diagnose the patient herself.…

tests and studies. They can be both invasive and non-invasive procedures. They range from a physical examination to diagnostic test and clinical findings. Diagnostic examinations include blood tests, serum-protein tests, various chemical tests, and ultrasound imaging among other assortments for detection is disease. Measuring the levels of certain chemicals produced by the liver can show how competently your liver is functiong. Blood tests may be used to detect Ammonia levels in a cirrhotic…

If a patient is jaundiced a doctor will most likely send them to get an abdominal ultrasound done to access biliary dilatation and determine if gallstones are present. This may also help determine the site of obstruction. If ultrasound cannot rule out the direct cause of jaundice then axial imaging such as computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) will be performed. Tumors can be identified…

Concerning the ability of mothers to do NT screening, Karnmen et al, mentioned that ultrasound screening requires all pregnant women to go to appropriate health care centers with a great equipment quality within a limited time (11 – 13 weeks of gestation), in addition, they mentioned that NT screening should be introduced as a separate entity…

Ranchod et al (2012) described 4 cases where this was true. All these cases had an antenatal Ultrasound performed during the third trimester. MRI was performed on all patients on a 1.5 Tesla machine. The first case was a 28 year old women. This particular women was 32 weeks pregnant. She had an ultrasound performed for a suspected polyhydramnios. The ultrasound revealed and “enlarged cisterna manga, a cavum septum pellucidum, and retarded long bone growth.”(Ranchod, 27). The…