Two studies presented at The International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (6–10 February 2016, Hollywood, USA) found that there was inadequate information from manufacturers about many of their protective garments. This means that informed decisions are hard to make regarding the radiation protection offered by these garments.
Frostbite injuries are seen at an increasing rate, and there is an increasing body of evidence supporting the use of thrombolytic therapy for its management, Ivan Babin and colleagues from Upstate Medical University, State University of New York, USA, told delegates at the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET, 6–10 February, Hollywood, USA).
Acute mesenteric ischaemia can be successfully treated with endovascular therapy such as balloon angioplasty, according to research from the University of Eastern Finland.
The course, designed to provide training to interventionalists on the transradial approach, was held in Merit’s new state-of-the-art training facility in its European headquarters in Maastricht, the Netherlands. It took place on 25 and 26 February. The ThinkRadial programme serves to educate and train interventional cardiologists, interventional radiologists and vascular surgeons around the world about using the radial artery, as an alternative to the femoral artery, to gain access for interventional procedures.
Philips’ intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) technology holds benefits for the diagnosis of iliofemoral venous obstruction, in comparison to conventional contrast-enhanced X-ray imaging, according to a clinical trial.
The addition of SIR-Spheres (Sirtex) to chemotherapy has been shown to significantly prolong progression-free survival in the liver among patients with non-resectable liver-dominant or liver-only colorectal cancer in the SIRFLOX study. These results have been published online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Research presented in February at the Symposium on Clinical Interventional Oncology (CIO), held in conjunction with International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET), in Hollywood, USA, provides a clear shot in the arm for chemoembolization that uses doxorubicin and ethiodised oil over the triple-drug version.
Nipro North America, a division of Nipro Medical Corporation, has launched the Cronus HP high-pressure, 0.035” over-the-wire percutaneous transluminal angioplasty balloon catheter.
The first clinical procedure with the Magellan robotic catheter eKit (MRC eKit, Hansen Medical) has been successfully performed. The device was used as part of a robotic transarterial chemoembolization procedure, which was completed by Ripal Gandhi at Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, Miami, USA.
The final results from a phase 2 randomised trial, published online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology on 1 February, find no benefit from using doxorubicin-eluting beads (LC Bead, BTG) over embolic microspheres that do not elute a drug (Bead Block, BTG).
The first liver cancer patient has been treated with LC Bead Lumi radiopaque embolic bead (BTG) in conjunction with Philips Live Image Guidance, targeting a hypervascular tumour with the goal of blocking blood flow to achieve tumour necrosis.
Preliminary results of a randomised controlled trial comparing the use of the Zilver PTX drug-eluting stent (Cook Medical) and bypass grafts in long femoropopliteal lesions show a trend in favour of the endovascular device at 12 months with lower rates of restenosis and target lesion revascularisation. Initial results of the ZILVERPASS study were presented at the Leipzig Interventional Course (LINC; 26–29 January 2016, Leipzig, Germany).
With the Magellan robotic catheter eKit, physicians will now have robotic control of third party microcatheters through the existing Magellan Robotic Catheter 6F architecture. This added ability has the potential to help reduce procedure times and radiation exposure.
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS), the American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA) and the Society for Vascular Medicine (SVM) collaboratively have published their first-ever set of clinical practice guidelines for treating the diabetic foot, based on a meta-analysis of the available literature.
Primary endpoint data from a prospective, multicentre clinical study evaluating the everlinQ endoAVF system have been announced by TVA Medical. The system is designed to an arteriovenous (AV) fistula for haemodialysis access in people with end-state kidney disease (ESKD) using an endovascular approach in vessels not traditionally used during surgery.
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