Bats, boats, baths, and vasculitis: The story of ultrasound in GCA

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