Aurika Vanckavičienė, Reda Navickienė, Ingrida Viliušienė, Zita Sakalauskienė ABSTRACT Background: Job satisfaction has become an important issue for healthcare organizations in recent years, because of potential labor shortages, their effect on patient care. Job satisfaction has a great influence in healthcare specialist retention and the delivery of high quality care. Rapid changes in of radiology …

Greta Grauzinyte¹, Vaiva Jievaltaite¹, Domas Golubickas² ¹ Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Medical Academy, Faculty of Medicine ² Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Medical Academy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Radiology ABSTRACT Background and aim. Imaging tests become one of the main human-made ionizing radiation sources in these days. Computed tomography (CT) performed within one …

Abstract Colonic pseudo-obstruction is a clinical and radiological syndrome of the large bowel dilatation without mechanical obstruction. We report two similar clinical cases of this syndrome with different origins – adult Hirschsprung’s disease and Ogilvie’s syndrome. Both conditions are rare and actual prevalence is unknown. Early recognition and management are extremely important because it can …

  ABSTRACT Aim: to evaluate the frequency and results of applying uterine artery embolization for uterine fibroids treating. Research material and methods: The research retrospectively analyses the medical history of women (n=180), who were treated in 7 hospitals of Latvia and Lithuania. Uterine artery embolization (UAE) was applied for these women to treat symptomatic uterine …

The aim: To determine the role of CT in the evaluation of the spread of ovarian cancer. Methods: The data of 64 female patients who underwent abdominal and pelvic CT examinations due to the suspicion of ovarian cancer during 2014–2015 in HLUHS CK were analyzed. All patients were operated and ovarian cancer was confirmed histologically. …

ABSTRACT Introduction: The incidence of brain tumor in pregnant women is estimated to be 1 in 1000–2000 pregnancies and it is similar for pregnant and not pregnant women. Incidence of malignant brain tumors is 3.6 per 1 million live births. Treatment and diagnostic of malignant brain tumor during pregnancy has a lot of specificity and …

Abstract Background. The diagnosis of epilepsy is mostly based on clinical features of seizures and the results of electrophysiological and neuroimaging methods. Unluckily, there is no single imaging technique that can provide all the needed information: to confirm the etiology of seizures, to prognose the outcome of the disease and provide both structural and functional …

Ruta Pupalyte1, Algidas Basevicius2 1Faculty of Medicine, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania 2Department of Radiology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania ABSTRACT Background and aim. e adrenal tumors are a reasonably common pathology. Radiologic imaging detects an adrenal neoplasm in approximately 4% of the patients incidentally. It is also a valuable tool …

Gerta Repečkaitė1, Kristina Banionienė1, Eglė Kirklienė1, Jurgita Zaveckienė.1 1Department of Radiology of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kaunas, Lithuania.   ABSTRACT Background: Traumatic injuries are the fourth most common cause of death in all age/race/sex groups. Computed tomography (CT) is considered to be the current gold standard when providing a quick and accurate diagnosis of …

Abstract Objective: to evaluate the importance of patient preparation for diagnostic quality of PET-CT images. Methods: prospective study of 188 patients‘ who underwent PET-CT examination at our Nuclear medicine department has been carried out. Patients were asked to fill in questionnaire about preparation for PET-CT. Then PET-CT images were analysed and attributed to one of …