1) What is Ultrasound Imaging and why it is so important?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ultrasound Imaging, or in simple terms Ultrasound, is the examination\nperformed on our body organs for the purpose of their simple morphological\nstudy until the precise assessment of their movements and their blood flow\nusing the sound waves which turn into a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u03a4he ability of ultrasonography to discover easily and reliably minor abnormalities\nand substantiate their benignity or malignancy makes it extremely important in\nthe field of preventive medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2) Does this examination emit radiation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ultrasound control has no irradiation; therefore it is completely safe to\ntest pregnant women and babies, which means that we start the preventive\ncontrol from a foetal age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3) What is a Triplex? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The examination using the ultrasound on the vessels and the heart is called\ntriplex, because vascular and heart structures and the blood flow are monitored\nin a simultaneous morphological, kinetic and haemodynamic study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4) Which organs can the Ultrasound check?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The brain, heart, body vessels (arteries, veins), lymph nodes, thyroid\ngland, parotid gland, oral glands, joints, muscles, breasts, liver, gall\nbladder, pancreas , spleen, kidneys, adrenal glands, bladder, uterus, ovaries\nand fallopian tubes, prostate gland, seminal vesicles, testis. Lately, some\nmedical centres started check-ups in the large intestine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5) Which examinations\/tests you suggest should be done in accordance to\ngender and age?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Always in consultation with the clinician, who is informed of the patient’s\nmedical history, we could choose the proper tests and examinations according to\ngender and age. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, starting with the infants, hip ultrasound has now become established as\na routine check for blocking hip dislocation, such an important condition that\nif diagnosed early, it contributes to the normal life of the individual. A\nbrain ultrasound check- up in babies can also be given – especially in\npremature babies – and abdominal and testicular for possible cryptorchidia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Children that start primary school should have a heart triplex and an\nabdominal and thyroid ultrasound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From the 15th year of age, male children should have a Triplex Ultrasound\nof the scrotum, which will be repeated every two years, since at the age of\n15-35 we have the highest incidents of malignancies in the testes, a finding\nthat if diagnosed early, the patient has a very good prognosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For female children of that age, it would be suggested to have the internal\ngenitalia and uterus examined with an Ultrasound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Women from the age of 20 years and onwards, the control of the thyroid,\nbreast, abdomen and internal genitalia and ovaries should be done annually,\nwhile in men of the same age, breast ultrasound is replaced by the scrotum\ntriplex (testes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of course at these ages this check-up concludes the prenatal check-up many\ncouples have in their preventative routine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Subsequently, at the age of 40, women should be concluding the breast\nultrasound with a mammogram, and men, prostate ultrasound should be\nsupplemented with PSA (blood test for the prostate). In recent years, by\nconducting prostate biopsies when the PSA rate is over 4, we have seen an\nincrease in malignancy at ages younger than 50. We should not forget the\ntransvaginal ultrasound for the check of ovarian and uterine malignancy –\nespecially in menopause, as well as Triplex of heart and vessels (carotid and\nlimb and abdominal aorta) in both men and women according to their medical\nhistory (hypercholesterolemia, arterial hypertension, vascular events)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the most important thing to remember is that regardless of age and sex,\nwe visit our doctor because Prevention Saves lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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