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In the News

• Low-Dose Coronary CT Angiography
  "Predicting a Heart Attack in 10 Seconds: Daniel Berman, MD Interview" (pdf) (April 23, 2008).
• Radiofrequency Ablation
  "Minimally Invasive Radiofrequency Ablation Successfully Removes Teen Drummer's Painful Benign Bone Tumor" (pdf) April, 2008.
• Vertebroplasty
  " Long-term data show vertebroplasty effective for osteoporotic vertebral collapse." (Reuters Health pdf), March 18, 2008.
• Low-Dose Coronary CT Angiogram
  "Team develops low-dose coronary CT angiogram" (Medical Imaging pdf), December 2007
• Coronary CTA
  "CMS makes no change to coronary CTA payments
  In a victory for advocates of coronary CT angiography (CTA), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) today decided to make no change to the way it reimburses for coronary CTA exams. With the decision, CT advocates have dodged a bullet that many feared could have killed the promising new field of cardiac imaging with CT." (AuntMinnie.com)
  
• PET
  "PET: Differentiating Neurodegenerative Disorders"
  (Radiology Today pdf).
• "Micro-Dose" Coronary CT Angiography
  "New Test Could Prevent Heart Attacks" (WEHONews.com pdf)
• RFA of Kidney Tumors
  "Kidney Tumors Can't Stand the Heat: New Radio Frequency Ablation Vaporizes Inoperable Tumors"
  (pdf)
• Developments in Nuclear Cardiology (pdf)
  "Transition from Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography to Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography" (Medscape)
  
• Low Dose Coronary CTA (pdf)
  "Low-dose coronary CTA diagnoses most patients" (AuntMinnie)
• MRI
  "MRI OK for Patients with Newer Implanted Cardiac Devices" (Aunt Minnie pdf).
• Vertebral Compression Fracture Management
  "Minimally Invasive Procedure Eases Pain of Spine Fractures" (Please click here for article pdf)
• Breakthrough Coma Reversal with Glue
  Franklin G. Moser, MD uses glue to seal a spinal fluid leak and saves Algis Bliudzius' life. (www.ivanhoe.com)
• CT Colonography
  "CT Colonography matches gold standard in eagerly awaited ACRIN trial results" (Diagnostic Imaging pdf).
• "Coronary Artery CT Assesses Sudden Death Risk From All Cardiovascular Causes"
  Daniel Berman, MD took part in a trial which concluded that "multislice CT evaluations of coronary artery stenosis can calculate the risk of heart-related deaths for patients with recently diagnosed coronary artery disease." (pdf)
• CT Screening
  "British advisory panel deems CT screening tests safe and effective." (Health Day pdf)
• Coronary CTA
  "Coronary CTA results correlate with all-cause mortality" (pdf)
• PET/CT
  "PET/CT predicts chemo response in lung cancer patients" (pdf).
• CT Colonography
  "Report from Stanford MDCT: Trial establishes equivalence between 64-slice CT colonagraphy and optical colonoscopy for colorectal cancer screening" (pdf)
• American College of Radiology (pdf)
  Barry D. Pressman, MD is elected president of the American College of Radiology.
• Vertebral Compression Fracture Treatment
  "Plasma-Mediated Radiofrequency Ablation Assisted Percutaneous Cement Injection for Treating Advanced Malignant Vertebral Compression Fractures." (pdf).
• Radiofrequency Ablation
  "Lung RFA shows long-term survival benefits" (Diagnostic Imaging pdf).
• Breast MRI
  "MRI Evaluation of the Contralateral Breast in Women with Recently Diagnosed Breast Cancer" (New England Journal of Medicine).
• Whole Body Imaging
  "Whole-body imaging survives era as undirected screening to emerge as tool for specific indications." (Diagnostic Imaging pdf).
• MR Imaging
  "MR imaging sheds light on diverse range of injuries in upper extremity"
  (Diagnostic Imaging pdf).
• Cardiac MRI
  "Cardiac MR imaging should be performed in elderly patients with acute chest pain to rule out Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as broken heart syndrome." (Diagnostic Imaging)
• Lung Cancer
  Dr. Peter Julien speaks with the Beverly Hills Courier about the best way to detect lung cancer.

Papers

• Journal of Nuclear Cardiology (pdf)
  "Quantitation of infarct size in patients with chronic coronary artery disease using rest-redistribution TI-201 myocardial perfusion SPECT: correlation with contrast-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance."
• Journal of the American College of Cardiology (pdf)
  "Long-Term Prognosis Associated with Coronary Calcification."
• The New England Journal of Medicine (pdf)
  "Optimal Medical Therapy with or without PCI for Stable Coronary Disease."
• Journal of Nuclear Cardiology (pdf)
  "Combined quantitative supine-prone myocardial perfusion SPECT improves detection of coronary artery disease and normalcy rates in women"
• The SHAPE Task Force (pdf)
  Recently, a panel of cardiac experts, including Daniel S. Berman, MD FACC, of the S. Mark Taper Foundation Imaging Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has suggested that getting screened for coronary calcium is as important as screening for breast or colon cancer--even in people with no symptoms of heart disease.
• Journal of Nuclear Cardiology (pdf)
  Noninvasive imaging in coronary artery disease: changing roles, changing players," by Daniel S. Berman, MD FACC.
• The New England Journal of Medicine (pdf)
  A panel of experts, including Sean W. Hayes, MD, John D. Friedman, MD and Daniel S. Berman, MD FACC of the S. Mark Taper Foundation Imaging Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has suggested that an assessment of dyspnea should be incorporated into the clinical evaluation of patients referred for cardiac stress testing.