A study from Taiwan, published in EuroIntervention in May and presented at the EuroPCR congress (20–23 May 2014, Paris, France), shows that penile artery angioplasty is safe and can achieve clinically significant improvement in erectile function in 60% of patients with erectile dysfunction and isolated penile artery stenosis at six months.
Volcano Corporation has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire AtheroMed, a privately-held company that has developed the Phoenix Atherectomy System used in the treatment of peripheral artery disease.
Ekos Corporation has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the EkoSonic endovascular system for the ultrasound facilitated, controlled and selective infusion of physician-specified fluids, including thrombolytics, into the vasculature for the treatment of pulmonary embolism.
Surgery patients are much less likely to get a blood clot in the lower extremities or lungs if they receive preventive treatment based on their individual clotting risk, in addition to walking soon after the operation. Results from a surgical quality improvement study, appearing in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, indicate that the odds of this common and potentially life-threatening postoperative complication steadily declined after the implementation of a multicomponent prevention program in a hospital s department of surgery.
The tangled highway of blood vessels that twists and turns inside our bodies, delivering essential nutrients and disposing of hazardous waste to keep our organs working properly has been a conundrum for scientists trying to make artificial vessels from scratch. Now a team from Brigham and Women s Hospital (BWH) has made headway in fabricating blood vessels using a three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting technique.
In a clinical trial, men with newly diagnosed, metastatic, hormone-sensitive prostate cancer who received chemotherapy straight away alongside hormone-blocking therapy lived more than a year longer than men who followed the standard treatment - which is to wait until the tumors have become resistant to hormone therapy before receiving chemotherapy.
Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men and a major cause of cancer-related deaths. Yet it is tricky to diagnose - the commonly used PSA test can result in over- diagnosis and unnecessary further procedures. Now, new research led by the University of Adelaide in Australia promises to improve the accuracy of prostate cancer diagnosis with the help of biomarkers in seminal fluid.
Results of a University of Colorado Cancer Center study presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) show that a test of organic compounds in exhaled breath can not only distinguish patients with lung cancer from patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but can also define the stage of any cancer present.
The Advanta V12 stent (MAQUET) is the company’s proprietary balloon-expandable covered stent technology. Prof. Richard G McWilliams, Radiology Department, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, UK, spoke about his centre’s experience with the Advanta V12.
A study from Lublin, Poland, that set out to evaluate the results of selective catheterisation of occluded fallopian tubes and its effect on fertility was presented at the Global Embolization Symposium and Technologies US (GEST US, 1–4 May, San Francisco, USA) meeting.
Research presented at the Global Embolization Symposium and Technologies US (GEST US meeting, 1–4 May, San Francisco, USA) meeting suggests that patients undergoing transhepatic interventions should have tract embolization performed to prevent haemorrhagic complications.
Over the years, we have seen a rapid development of tools, tricks and techniques that enable ablation of tumours located in regions that are in close proximity to thermally sensitive organs or structures. Despite this, what remains of paramount importance and central to ablating tumours, especially those that are deemed high-risk, is a complete understanding of the type of thermal injury applied, tissue properties of the target organ, electrode design, configuration of the isotherm created when applying one or several of these electrodes and, most importantly, a thorough understanding of anatomical structures that may inadvertently be in the ablative zone.
May 7, 2014—The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Safety Communication regarding removal of retrievable inferior vena cava (IVC) filters. The document, which contains no new safety concerns, updates a previously issued Initial Communication from August 2010 to include information on recently published research and postmarket surveillance studies for these devices.
A study presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s (SIR’s) 39th Annual Scientific Meeting (San Diego, USA) by Sam Stuart from Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK, suggests that antegrade gastrostomy insertion in infants who are less than 5kg in weight, is technically feasible and safe.
The initial clinical experience is to be presented at the Global Embolization Symposium and Technologies US meeting (GEST US,1–4 May, San Francisco, USA), a press release says.
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