Opinion
Austin J Radiol. 2021; 8(2): 1124.
MRI Brain Documentation
Alahmari A*
Department of Radiology, Al-Namas General Hospital, Saudi Arabia
*Corresponding author: Abdulwahab Alahmari, Department of Radiology, Radiology Specialist, Al-Namas General Hospital, Ministry of Health, Al-Namas City, Saudi Arabia
Received: February 15, 2021; Accepted: February 19, 2021; Published: February 26, 2021
Opinion
In many clinical cases, a patient may come to the hospital with a neurological abnormality. This patient happen to have a normal brain MRI study that is recorded on the Picture Archiving and Communicating system (PACs) of that hospital. The previous normal study will help in identifying any pathology take place in the future easily. What if all the patients did have a previous studies for the brain as some kind of documentation? It will help a lot. The aim of this paper is to propose a new idea that required for all the citizens in a country to have a normal brain MRI study recorded on their medical file and this MRI study updated every five years by undertaking an MRI scan.
The usefulness of this idea can be imply in different ways. For example; when a patient affected by any type of neurological issue, we have a morphological documentation for the brain prior to that neurological event took a place. As well, this is will provide a database for researchers to find pre and post neurological event documentation. Furthermore, it will help in detecting and documenting senile atrophic changes over the time. Sometime patients will have a “silent stroke” which has no symptoms which can be detected by the brain MRI scan.
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