Society of breast imaging & the covid vaccine recommendations
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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This is a snippet from our In The Know series w share with our clients. But, because of the ever evolving landscape we're in, we thought it would be important to share this update with everyone on our podcast!
Today, we'll discussing a new recommendation made by the society of breast imaging. As many know, the COVID-19 vaccine can lead to lymphadenopathy, which can throw off results. So, what should you do?
This episode is hosted by Joe Rad PA-C, who currently works in the ICU and pulmonary medicine and is one of our Medgeeks educator.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey what's up med geeks it's Joe Rad with another episode of In The Know. |
| 0:12.2 | Your number one place for the most up-to-date medical information. |
| 0:17.9 | So today, med geeks, I have a pretty interesting, really kind of fresh fresh hot off the press recommendation |
| 0:26.4 | from the Society of the Breast Imaging so it's new and it makes a lot of sense and it's kind of bold for I think this |
| 0:38.0 | this idea of breast imaging to put out this information and I think bold is what we need especially now. So this is going to |
| 0:47.0 | talk about the COVID vaccination and when it comes to breast imaging. As I promise I try to talk about COVID-19 at least once, every month, so that |
| 0:56.3 | we're peripherally kind of gleaning some information about COVID-19 is not feeling too overwhelmed |
| 1:01.8 | with everything because medicine still goes on, COVID-19 still goes on, but you know I don't want to burn anyone out with COVID-19 information. |
| 1:10.0 | However, this will be your episode on COVID-19 because some women who receive the COVID-19 vaccine |
| 1:16.8 | develops swollen lymph nodes, and these swollen lymph nodes can happen under their arms and usually on the same side of the |
| 1:26.4 | vaccine injection. So what does that mean? Well that means for women that undergo |
| 1:31.6 | regular breast imaging, mammogram screenings, etc. |
| 1:37.0 | They're going to have some possibility of having some lymph nodes if they get imaged too quickly after the vaccination. |
| 1:46.0 | Because having lymph nodes under the arm after an vaccination, this is a normal immune response. |
| 1:51.1 | This is a normal immune reaction to a vaccine. It happens. It's just our body's way of |
| 1:56.3 | kind of processing the whole thing. It's not abnormal. It's something that can be |
| 2:01.0 | expected. It doesn't happen with everyone, of course, but it does and it doesn't make anyone really alarmed because it's |
| 2:08.0 | expected. But these swollen lymph nodes |
| 2:20.0 | usually return to normal on their own, just within a few days or weeks, basically. But the thing here is that breast radiologists look really closely for any changes on your mammogram, right? |
| 2:27.0 | So if they see some swollen lymph nodes under one arm on a mammogram or something, this can be a sign of breast cancer, just having |
| 2:38.0 | a lymph node under your arm on a mammogram, right? And that's what you're looking for mammograms. |
| 2:45.2 | That's what you're looking for on breast imaging is, is there any possibility that there |
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