Clinical imaging
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The manuscript discusses landmark studies using abbreviated MRI for breast cancer screening. This includes abbreviated dynamic contrast enhanced MRI and diffusion weighted imaging. Our institutional experience with abbreviated MR protocol for breast cancer screening is also described. ⋯ Abbreviated MRI protocols were found to demonstrate value for screening of breast cancer. It has been shown that abbreviated protocol MRI provides similar diagnostic sensitivities to full protocol MRI for breast cancer in women with increased lifetime risk. Our institutional abbreviated MRI protocol for breast cancer offers improved time and workflow efficiencies and has the potential to increase the number of breast cancers detected and the detection of pathologically relevant invasive breast cancer at earlier stages.
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To prospectively examine the possible relationship between oxygen saturation changes and anxiety during MRI examinations. ⋯ To investigate a possible relationship between oxygen saturation changes during MRI examinations and MRI-induced anxiety, we designed a prospective study. We detected statistically significant lower oxygen saturation levels during the examination compared to pre- and post-MRI levels. However, no statistically significant relationship was found between the oxygen saturation decrease and pre- and post-MRI STAI scores.