Prevalence of Burnout Among Cardiothoracic Radiologists: Stress Factors, Career Satisfaction, and Modality-specific Imaging Volumes.

Purpose: We investigated the impact of modality-specific volumes and other potential stressors on burnout and career-choice satisfaction.

Materials And Methods: An anonymous survey of 36 questions was sent by email to all 875 faculty members of the STR. These included 11 multiple-choice questions, 23 Likert questions, and 2 free-text questions.

Arteriovenous Malformations in the Setting of Osler-Weber-Rendu: What the Radiologist Needs to Know.

Osler-Weber-Rendu, also known as Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia, is an autosomal dominant disease with phenotypic manifestations that include pulmonary, cerebrospinal, hepatic, and other visceral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). Pulmonary AVMs can result in hypoxemia, hemoptysis, or stroke due to paradoxical embolism. The mainstay of treatment is transcatheter embolization.

Prevalence of Burnout Among Cardiothoracic Radiologists.

Purpose: Burnout is a psychological syndrome in response to chronic occupational stressors. The prevalence of burnout among medical professionals has been increasing, and recent studies have shown that radiologists are among those affected. We investigated the prevalence of burnout and assessed associated factors among cardiothoracic radiologists.

Educational Case: Aspiration Pneumonia.

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Synchronous Pulmonary Adenofibroma and Solitary Fibrous Tumor: Case Report and Review of the Literature.

Pulmonary adenofibroma (PAF) is a rare neoplasm that may be related to solitary fibrous tumor (SFT). A subset of PAFs harbor the NAB2-STAT6 fusion that is typical of SFT, but a significant proportion do not. Their distinction is clinically important as SFTs can potentially have an aggressive clinical course, while there has been no report of a PAF behaving in a malignant fashion.

Evaluation of the Pericardium with CT and MR.

The pericardium plays an important role in optimizing cardiac motion and chamber pressures and serves as a barrier to pathology. In addition to pericardial anatomy and function, this review article covers a variety of pericardial conditions, with mention of potential pitfalls encountered during interpretation of diagnostic imaging. Normal and abnormal appearance of pericardium on CT and MR imaging is emphasized, including dynamic imaging correlates of pericardial pathophysiology.

Reduced radiation for adult thoracic CT: a practical approach.

Purpose: To determine whether radiation dose to patients can be reduced for clinical thoracic CT scans without loss of diagnostic information.

Materials And Methods: One hundred consecutive patients having clinical CT examinations of the thorax were included. The patients were divided into 4 groups, and the mAs setting determined from the patient's weight as follows (max.