Across 2 experiments, the authors demonstrate that emotional states influence how receptive people are to advice. The focus of these experiments is on incidental emotions, emotions triggered by a prior experience that is irrelevant to the current situation. The authors demonstrate that people who feel incidental gratitude are more trusting and more receptive to advice than are people in a neutr...

Renal incidental findings (IFs) are common. However, previous reports investigated renal IFs were limited to patient selection. The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence and distribution of all renal IFs on computed tomography (CT) in a large patient collective.All patients, who underwent CT investigations of the abdominal region at our institution in the time period between Janu...

Technical advances in ultrasound, multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have increased our ability to detect small-sized hepatic lesions and low-contrast lesions, which would have escaped detection some years ago [1,2]. Prevalence of small lesions found at CT ranges from 12.7% to 29.4% in cancer patients [1-3]. Only a minority of these lesions will event...

In “Incidental Findings of Nonparentage: A Case for Universal Nondisclosure,” the authors argue for universal nondisclosure in cases of incidentally discovered nonparentage during a genetic workup for a pediatric patient. I could not disagree more. In making their case, they portray the potential damage done by disclosure but dismiss well-established ethical principles for the argument to discl...

Ovarian incidentalomas are reported in 5-18% of asymptomatic females in cross sectional imaging. Even in oncologic patients the majority of these lesions will be benign, with hydrosalpinx and ovarian cysts as leading diagnoses. Special emphasis should be given to adnexal lesions in patients with history of primaries from the GI tract or breast cancer, both of which have a propensity to metastas...

OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence and frequency of follow-up instructions for incidental findings on computed tomography (CT) scanning of the abdomen and pelvis in trauma patients. METHODS We performed a retrospective chart review of all adult patients triaged to the trauma service at a Level I trauma center between July 1, 2003 and June 30, 2004. Included patients were 16 years of age and...

A 13-year-old girl with a remote history of juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma developed acute onset flushing, tachycardia and shortness of breath immediately following administration of gadopentetate dimeglumine during routine brain MRI that subsided following intravenous diphenhydramine. A retrospective review of the MRI results revealed multiple areas of contrast enhancement of the face, consist...

Researchers at the University of Bourgogne in Dijon, France surveyed French geneticists who were members of the "Association Français des Généticiens" on incidental findings (IF) found on array-based comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) technology retrospectively over a seven-year period.

Recent work on incidental findings, concentrating on the difficult problems posed by the ambiguous results often generated by high-tech medicine, has proceeded largely independently from recent work on medical researchers' ancillary-care obligations, the obligations that researchers have to deal with diseases or conditions besides the one(s) under study. This paper contends that the two topics ...

Federal regulations governing human subjects research do not address key questions raised by incidental neuroimaging findings, including the scope of a researcher's disclosure with respect to the possibility of incidental findings and the question whether a researcher has an affirmative legal cuty to seek, detect, and report incidental findings. The scope of researcher duties may, however, be m...