Question: Does a chest X-ray help diagnose heart failure, and what else might it tell my doctor? Answer: A chest X-ray is one of the things we often do when someone presents with symptoms of heart ...

A chest X-ray does not directly show pulmonary embolism. However, it may help a doctor rule out health problems that cause similar symptoms, such as pneumonia and some heart conditions.

Having a chest X-ray can be a valuable tool for your doctor to help diagnose an illness. It can however be misleading if it is used alone rather than with other tools to make that diagnosis.

Your X-ray will take no more than 10 to 15 minutes. You’ll have to remove all of your clothes and jewelry from the waist up, and wear a hospital gown. And you have to stand very still while you ...

Researchers found that chest radiography had a sensitivity of 63%, specificity of 93%, positive predictive value of 90% and a negative predictive value of 72% in detecting ILD compared with HRCT.

To compare bedside transthoracic echocardiography with chest x-ray, the researchers, led by Yiju Teresa Liu, MD, also at George Washington University, looked at 28 patients who underwent catheter ...

The radiologists then saw the lung X-ray view created with the new software and reevaluated the scans. Detection scores of solitary nodules improved 12.4% with the new software, Worrell said.

TB yield would have been 3.6 per 1,000 population when assessing symptoms alone and 7 per 1,000 population when assessing digital chest X-ray alone based on hypothesized screening modalities, the ...

On a chest X-ray, pleural effusion appears as an area of equal opacity, typically at the lung base. Pleural effusion in TB may also indicate a related pleural infection.

While not required by OSHA, some institutions mandate a chest x-ray every two to three years in the PPD-positive employee. —JoAnn Deasy, PA-C, MPH (128-8) ...