DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING CENTER OF LAUSANNE

These kinds of examinations are for people in « good apparent health ». It is an integral part of preventive medicine and can be, by example, completed, if wanted, by a wellness stay in an institut.

Its purpose is to detect any underlying diseases not yet symptomatic or detectable by the other examinations (clinical, biological, …) and to take care, as quickly as possible and most efficiently, of the detected disease. Typically, it is able to research vascular malformations (aneurism, stenosis, …) and tumor pathologies at their begining, still treatable at this stage in optimal conditions.

Three targeted groups are to consider :

1. The first targeted group, especially young people (20-45 years old), although any age group can benefit from it. It usually is a congenital pathology especially cerebrovascular and/or domestic (aneurism, arteriovenous malformation, …) but also musculoskeletal (disabling back pain, joint pain, …), matology (family history of breast cancer) and thoracic (professional exposure, constitutional, …). It calls for a cerebral angio-MRI, a musculoskeletal MRI, mammogram with tomosynthesis and pulmonary CT scan. To be well noted that the double tube CT scan and the double energy CT scan of the latest generation, offer, on one hand, the possibility to discriminate « low-dose » an exposure to X rays close to an exposure to standard thorax radiographs, on another hand, the possibility to discriminate the content of substances entering in the composition of urinary stones for an optimal urological or rheumatological following in the microcrytalline deposition diseases. All these examinations are created without contrast (15-60 min according to the type and the number of examinations performed.
2. The second group concerns the over 45 year olds. It is focused in particular on the tumor pathologies and, ultimately, lung cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, liver and kidney cancer, as well as all other tumor pathologies can be detected (colon, ovaries, thyroïd, …). It regroups a cerebral MRI, an abdominopelvic and prostate MRI, a mammogram with tomosynthesis and a thoracic CT. All these exams are also created without constrast in approximately 1 hour.
3. The third group, the most « challenging », should englob, on one hand, the responsable person (business executive, bosses, …) and people with stressful jobs (health, bank, education, …). On another hand, in the same group should be considered people with cardiovascular risks (tobacco, diabetes, high blood pressure, cholesterol, family history, …). All these people have in common the risk of a coronary cardiac pathology and/or cerebral vascular with, for corollary, a myocardial or cerebral infarction (stroke). By far, not in all cases, a typical symptomatology demonstrates the presence or then too late. In this group, aged on average between 45 and 60 years old, the coronary CT aspecially dedicated is then recommanded in addition of the cerebral angio-MRI. It is indispensably required by a iodine constrast injection. By the same, it allows the pulmonary vascular analysis (pulmonary embolism, …) and, more globally, the aorta and its necessary branches. Depending on the importance of the pathology discovered, in common with the different partnerships (CVGCL, UroFusion, CHUV), a specialist advice and support could be done the same day.