MRI and Anesthesia & Sedation

Authors : Asim ESEN, Muhittin CALİM, Huseyin KADİOGLU

Pages : 60-61

Doi:10.25000/acem.319865

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Publication Date : 2017-08-15

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :In 1945 Broch & Purcell described as Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. It was used for chemical and biochemical analyses for long years. It was widely used in medical applications after Lauterbur et al. ‘s study in 1973 (1). The primary screening method for breast cancer is mammography as known. It is the only method that positively affects survival. But its sensitivity and specificity is not 100% and it can be an inadequate method at some ages. Studies showed that: MRI imaging added mammography increased success rates but increased false positivity rates can cause some unnecessary invasive procedures. Although these breast MRI is widely used for screening, diagnosis and staging (2). More than 80 million MRI is worldwide applied yearly. Claustrophobia rates are between 1-15% and more than 2 million breast MRI application is interrupted for the necessitation of sedation (3). Melendez et al. noticed that rate around 30%. Also 3-5% of these cases were interrupted due to the sedation necessitation. Anxiety and claustrophobia can cause sequence repeating, procedure cancellation and important time and labor loss.
Keywords : MRI, Anesthesia, Sedation

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