Episode Details

In this week's episode we interview Kinanah Yaseen, MD, a rheumatologist from Cleveland Clinic's department of rheumatic and immunologic diseases about using ultrasound for giant cell arteritis.

· Intro by Adam J. Brown, MD 0:12

· Dr. Brown's recent patient 1:34

· History of ultrasound and GCA 3:20

· Episode overview 7:05

· History of echolocation; how bats helped us invent ultrasound 8:00

· What is a bat bomb? 14:56

· How the Titanic helped us invent ultrasound 16:48

· Neurologists bring ultrasound to medicine 20:09

· OB/GYN is next to use ultrasound 23:11

· Ultrasound image quality becomes better 26:32

· Ultrasound use in giant cell arteritis 28:44

· Welcome Kinanah Yaseen, MD 33:49

· Using ultrasound in the clinic 34:25

· Can you walk us through an ultrasound of the axillary and vertebral arteries? 37:16

· Can you tell us why we stopped looking for sites to biopsy by finding narrowing of the vessels? 38:19

· Tell us about the halo sign 39:10

· How do you validate your ultrasound skills? 40:20

· If we start a patient on steroids, how useful is an ultrasound? 42:35

· Episode summary 44:20

· Thank you for listening 45:57

We'd love to hear from you! Send your comments/questions to Dr. Brown at rheuminationspodcast@healio.com. Follow us on Twitter @HRheuminations @AdamJBrownMD @HealioRheum.

Kinanah Yaseen, MD, is a is a staff member of Cleveland Cli