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    ACR appropriateness criteria post-treatment surveillance of bladder cancer: 2021 update

    J. Am. Coll. Radiol; 18 (supl. 5), 2021
    Urothelial cancer is the second most common cancer, and cause of cancer death, related to the genitourinary tract. The goals of surveillance imaging after the treatment of urothelial cancer of the urinary bladder are to detect new or previously undetected urothelial tumors, to identify metastatic disease...

    ACR appropriateness criteria postmenopausal acute pelvic pain

    J. Am. Coll. Radiol; 18 (supl. 5), 2021
    Acute pelvic pain is a common presenting complaint in both the emergency room and outpatient settings. Pelvic pain of gynecologic origin in postmenopausal women occurs less frequently than in premenopausal women; however, it has important differences in etiology. The most common causes of postmenopausal ...

    ACG clinical guideline: upper gastrointestinal and ulcer bleeding

    We performed systematic reviews addressing predefined clinical questions to develop recommendations with the GRADE approach regarding management of patients with overt upper gastrointestinal bleeding. We suggest risk assessment in the emergency department to identify very-low-risk patients (e.g., Glasgow...

    ACR appropriateness criteria Myelopathy: 2021 update

    J. Am. Coll. Radiol; 18 (supl. 5), 2021
    Myelopathy is a clinical diagnosis with localization of the neurological findings to the spinal cord, rather than the brain or the peripheral nervous system, and then to a particular segment of the spinal cord. Myelopathy can be the result of primary intrinsic disorders of the spinal cord or from seconda...

    ACR appropriateness criteria intensive care unit patients

    J. Am. Coll. Radiol; 18 (supl. 5), 2021
    Chest radiography is the most frequent and primary imaging modality in the intensive care unit (ICU), given its portability, rapid image acquisition, and availability of immediate information on the bedside preview. Due to the severity of underlying disease and frequent need of placement of monitoring de...

    ACR appropriateness criteria infective endocarditis

    J. Am. Coll. Radiol; 18 (supl. 5), 2021
    Infective endocarditis can involve a normal, abnormal, or prosthetic cardiac valve. The diagnosis is typically made clinically with persistently positive blood cultures, characteristic signs and symptoms, and echocardiographic evidence of valvular vegetations or valvular complications such as abscess, de...

    ACR appropriateness criteria imaging of mediastinal masses

    J. Am. Coll. Radiol; 18 (supl. 5), 2021
    Mediastinal masses can present with symptoms, signs, and syndromes or incidentally. Selecting the appropriate diagnostic imaging study for mediastinal mass evaluation requires awareness of the strengths and weaknesses of the various imaging modalities with regard to tissue characterization, soft tissue c...

    ACR appropriateness criteria syncope

    J. Am. Coll. Radiol; 18 (supl. 5), 2021
    Syncope and presyncope lead to well over one million emergency room visits in the United States each year. Elucidating the cause of syncope or presyncope, which are grouped together given similar etiologies and outcomes, can be exceedingly difficult given the diverse etiologies. This becomes more challen...

    ACR appropriateness criteria staging and follow-up of vulvar cancer

    J. Am. Coll. Radiol; 18 (supl. 5), 2021
    Vulvar cancer is an uncommon gynecologic tumor and one of several human papillomavirus-associated malignancies. Squamous cell carcinoma is the most prevalent histologic subtype of vulvar cancer, accounting for the majority of cases. Imaging plays an important role in managing vulvar cancer. At initial di...

    ACR appropriateness criteria asymptomatic patient at risk for coronary artery disease: 2021 update

    J. Am. Coll. Radiol; 18 (supl. 5), 2021
    Coronary atherosclerotic disease is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity due to major cardiovascular events in the United States and abroad. Risk stratification and early preventive measures can reduce major cardiovascular events given the long latent asymptomatic period. Imaging tests can detect s...