A comprehensive analysis of authorship trends in Skeletal Radiology since inception from 1976 to 2020.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to explore authorship trends within the musculoskeletal radiology subspecialty-focused journal, Skeletal Radiology, from inception to 2020. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Skeletal Radiology articles published in 1976, 1986, 1996, 2006, 2016, and 2020 were reviewed. For each article, the number of authors, the number of distinct institutions, the names of first and last authors, the country of the first author, the article length, and the number of article references were recorded. RESULTS: A total of 885 articles passed the exclusion criteria to be included in the study. Since inception, there has been a significant increase in the number of SR articles published (P = 0.02), the mean number of authors per article (P < 0.01), the mean number of references per article (P < 0.01), the mean number of distinct institutions per article (P = 0.02), and the mean number of pages per article (P < 0.01). The proportion of female first and last authors significantly increased (P = 0.02, P = 0.02). There was a significant increase in the proportion of articles published from Asia (P = 0.04). However, no significant changes in the proportion of articles published from other regions were observed. CONCLUSION: Similar to authorship trends in other medical journals, Skeletal Radiology demonstrated upward trends in authorship count, distinct institutional count, and article length. A rise in first and last female authorship was observed. Finally, an increase in the proportion of authors from Asia was observed while no significant changes in the proportion of authors from other regions were demonstrated.

Evaluating Neuroradiology Fellowship Program Websites: A Critical Analysis of all 84 Programs in the United States.

PURPOSE: To investigate the accessibility and content of neuroradiology fellowship program websites (NRFW). METHODS: A list of neuroradiology fellowship programs were obtained from the official Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) website. A google search was used to identify each NRFW of individual programs. Each NRFW was evaluated for the availability of content under recruitment and education domains. RESULTS: At the time of the study, there were 84 ACGME accredited neuroradiology fellowship websites available for analysis. In the recruitment domain, evaluators found program description (98.8%), contact address (94.1%), and searchable on google (97.7%) most readily available while, interview day itinerary (3.5%), meal allowance (16.5%), and parking (21.2%) were least readily available. In the education domain, research (91.8%), facility description (89.4%), and faculty listing (82.4%) were most readily available, while postfellowship placement (10.6%), alumni education history (17.7%), and responsibility progression (25.9%) were least readily available. CONCLUSIONS: NRFW vary greatly in the amount of information they display. Programs display their descriptions and contact information most frequently while interview day itinerary was the least likely to be found. There were no statistically significant differences between the amount of recruitment and educational content listed when programs were stratified by rank (top ten vs below top ten), region (west, midwest, northeast, and south), and program size (>3 fellows vs 1-3 fellows). Website content development is relatively low cost and our findings suggest that there is room for improvement in website comprehensiveness.

Infective Aortic Valve Endocarditis Causing Embolic Consecutive ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarctions.

ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is a rare and potentially fatal complication of infective endocarditis. We report the ninth case of embolic native aortic valve infective endocarditis causing STEMI and the first case to describe consecutive embolisms leading to infarctions of separate coronary territories. Through examination of this case in the context of the previous eight similar documented cases in the past, we find that infective endocarditis of the aortic valve can and frequently affect more than a single myocardial territory and can occur consecutively. Further, current treatment modalities for embolic infective endocarditis causing acute myocardial infarction are limited and unproven. This index case illustrates the potential severity of complications and the challenges in developing standardized management for such patients.