The current diagnosis of Alzheimer disease is made by clinical, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging assessments. Routine structural neuroimaging evaluation has long been based on nonspecific features such as atrophy, which… Read more “Alzheimer Disease Imaging”

Giant cell arteritis is a systemic obliterative vasculitis mainly involving the arteries that originate from the arch of the aorta. However, any vessel in the body can… Read more “Giant Cell Arteritis Imaging”

Ebstein anomaly accounts for less than 1% of congenital heart diseases and occurs in 1 in 210,000 live births.The condition occurs with equal frequency in males and… Read more “Ebstein Anomaly Imaging”

Meningiomas are the most commonly reported intracranial tumor. They represent approximately 38% of all intracranial neoplasms in females and 20% in males. [1] Meningiomas are also the most common… Read more “Brain Meningioma Imaging”

Venous vascular malformations, also known as venous angiomas or, more properly, developmental venous anomalies (DVAs), represent congenital anatomically variant pathways in the normal venous drainage of an… Read more “Brain Imaging in Venous Vascular Malformations”

Grouped as a hereditary phakomatosis, von Hippel-Lindau syndrome (VHL) is an autosomal dominant, inherited, neurocutaneous dysplasia complex with an 80-100% penetrance and variable delayed expressivity. Sex distributions are equal,… Read more “Imaging in Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome”

Spontaneous intracranial hemorrhage affects approximately 40,000 people in the United States each year, constituting 10-20% of stroke occurrences.In adults who present with nontraumatic intraparenchymal hemorrhage in the… Read more “Brain Imaging in Hypertensive Hemorrhage”

Arachnoid cysts are relatively common benign and asymptomatic lesions occurring in association with the central nervous system, both within the intracranial compartment (most common) as well as within… Read more “Arachnoid Cyst Imaging”

MRI can detect brain abnormalities associated with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and can be used to predict which patients with MCI may eventually develop Alzheimer’s disease. … In later… Read more “Alzheimer Disease Imaging”

Echocardiography is the preferred imaging test for aortic stenosis. Echocardiography is indispensable to the assessment of the extent of LV hypertrophy, systolic ejection performance, and anatomy of… Read more “Echocardiography”