Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterised by airflow obstruction that is not fully reversible, that does not change markedly over several months and that is usually progressive in the long term. As an umbrella term, COPD has subsumed chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
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Transvaginal ultrasound (TVUS) is a pivotal diagnostic tool in gynaecology, offering high accuracy in detecting pelvic pathologies. Despite its clinical efficacy, TVUS faces significant acceptance barriers, particularly among ethnic minority women in the UK. This mixed-methods study investigates cultural, informational and gender-based factors influencing TVUS acceptance across diverse ethnic groups. Twelve women from varied ethnic […]
Nargis Begum
Royal Stoke University Hospital
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the ultrasound characteristics of non-tubal ectopic pregnancies, which account for approximately five per cent of all ectopic pregnancies. Unlike tubal ectopics, non-tubal variants pose greater diagnostic challenges and carry increased risks of morbidity and mortality due to delayed recognition. The author emphasises the importance of a systematic transvaginal […]
Dr Naomi Page
The Hurley Group, London
The history of nuclear medicine as a clinical discipline roughly maps on to my lifetime, and that of radiology as a whole on to the lives of my older relatives.My grandmother’s birth (1898) coincides with the Curies’ first isolation of radium, and my mother’s (1936) with the first human studies with cyclotron-produced radionuclides, sodium-24 and […]
Professor Phil Blower
King’s College London