A study published in the British Journal of Surgery has provided international validation of the St George’s Vascular Institute (SGVI) risk score, which has been developed to predict the risk of complications in patients undergoing endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR).
Giovanni Mauri, Milan, Italy, reported the results of the study on the treatment of benign biliary strictures with a novel bioresorbable biliary stent, EllaDV (Ellacs) at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR, 4–8 March, Vienna, Austria).
A study from France presented at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR, 4–8 March, Vienna, Austria) has found that percutaneous thermal ablation is safe and effective for local control of metastatic breast cancer.
TomTec has announced FDA 510(k) clearance for its TomTec-Arena software solution. TomTec-Arena is a suite of clinical applications to review, analyse and quantify medical image data in multiple dimensions (2D and 3D/4D) and multiple modalities such as ultrasound, X-ray angiography, magnetic resonance and nuclear medicine imaging.
3D printing could become a powerful tool in customising interventional radiology treatments to individual patient needs, with clinicians having the ability to construct devices to a specific size and shape, according to a study being presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s Annual Scientific Meeting (28 February–5 March, Atlanta, USA). Researchers and engineers collaborated to print catheters, stents and filaments that were bioactive, giving these devices the ability to deliver antibiotics and chemotherapeutic medications to a targeted area in cell cultures.
Patients suffering from chronic plantar fasciitis now have a new treatment option against this debilitating foot ailment, according to research presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s annual scientific meeting.
An innovative interventional radiology treatment has been found to offer chronic migraine sufferers sustained relief of their headaches, according to research being presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s Annual Scientific Meeting (28 February–5 Atlanta, USA).
According to research presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s (SIR’s) annual scientific meeting, clinicians were able to use prostate artery embolization to improve patient symptoms, regardless of the size of benign prostatic hyperplasia before the treatment, researchers found in a retrospective study.
Penumbra has announced that its newest vascular embolization device, POD, will debut at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s annual scientific meetingin 2015 in Atlanta, USA.
Researchers at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust are investigating whether ultrasound therapy can relieve pain in patients whose cancers have spread to the bone.
Analysis of a 285-patient subgroup treated with ThermoDox plus radiofrequency ablation shows a statistically significant 59% improvement in overall survival when compared to patients who were treated with optimised radiofrequency ablation alone.
Atlanta will play host to the launch of a unique new resource to support families affected by primary liver cancer. Medikidz Explain Primary Liver Cancer will be introduced at this year’s Society of Interventional Radiology Annual Scientific Meeting (28 February–5 March) and the Association of Radiologic and Imaging Nursing Spring Conference at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta (1–2 March).
Early data from a multicentre, single-arm study that set out to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of a novel approach to inferior vena cava filtration using the VenaTech convertible filter (B Braun Interventional Systems) suggest that the use of this device yields favourable results.
ArtVentive Medical has announced the first use of its Endoluminal Occlusion System (EOS) in the USA at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where Kelvin Hong and Anobel Tamrazi performed a splenic artery occlusion using the device.
At the Leipzig Interventional Course (LINC, 27–30 January, Leipzig, Germany), Michael Lichtenberg, chief of the Vascular Center Klinikum Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany, presented information about a new balloon dilatation catheter that allows a targeted injection of fluids during percutaneous transluminal angioplasty.
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