Why IR innovation need not cost the world: A global solution
Jafar GolzarianCopyright: 2019 Solares Photography Inc. The keynote lecture on day one of the Pan Arab Interventional Radiology Society annual meeting (PAIRS; 11–14 February, Dubai,…
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These articles have been hand-picked by the editors of Interventional News, these articles offer insights and perspectives on the latest trends and best practices within the vascular community, and we hope that they will be of interest to you.
New study examines extent of interventional radiology recognition among US public
Mina Makary The Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) published a paper in January 2023 examining the potential barrier that the name of the…
PAIRS 2023: “[Opening] the gate” to IR in the Middle East and North Africa
Rana Tarek M Khafagy Rana Tarek M Khafagy is a consultant interventional radiologist based at Ain Shams University Hospital (Cairo, Egypt). In her capacity as…
Vulvar varicosities: New procedure, durable results
Karim Abd El Tawab In the past two decades, there has been a shift in varicose vein management from conventional surgical treatments to outpatient interventional…
‘Bright future’ or ‘immense loss’? Interventionalists split over shift towards ambulatory practice
Aaron Mauck A number of speakers took to the stage at the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapies (ISET; 16–19 January 2023, Miami Beach, USA) to…
Patient-centric care: Recognising the value of non-clinical intervention
Angela Laffan presenting at SIO 2023 During the Society of Interventional Oncology (SIO) 2023 annual scientific meeting in Washington DC, USA, a panel of speakers…
How liver venous deprivation is “pushing limits”
Boris Guiu Both the Andreas Gruentzig Lecture at this year’s Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe meeting (CIRSE; 10–14 September, Barcelona, Spain) and a…
Being a girl in the IR gang: “We are not really learning from the past”
Paula Novelli Paula Novelli, who is associate professor of interventional radiology (IR) at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (Pittsburgh, USA) put her own spin…
Robotic bronchoscopy shows promise to improve lung biopsies, analysis shows
Kim Styrvoky Lung nodule biopsies performed with new robotic bronchoscopy technology may be safer and more effective than those done by traditional methods, a study…
Cook Medical appoints John A Kaufman as chief medical officer
John Kaufman Cook Medical announces John A Kaufman (Cook Medical, Bloomington, USA) will be joining as its chief medical officer, effective July 2023. With Kaufman’s…
Results of single-centre study of Chemosat hepatic delivery system published in Clinical and Experimental Metastasis
Delcath Systems announced the publication of a retrospective analysis of patients who underwent a percutaneous hepatic perfusion procedure (PHP) with Chemosat for the treatment of…
ABISS trial comparison finds DCB superior to plain-balloon angioplasty in per-protocol analysis
Data have been presented for the first time at the Paris Vascular Insights (PVI) conference (23–25 November, Paris, France) from the ABISS trial, which compared…
RCR president advocates for improved data collection and optimised training in IR
Kath Halliday presenting at BSIR 2022 Royal College of Radiology (RCR) president Kath Halliday (Nottingham University Hospitals, Nottingham, UK) gave a presentation to the British…
“Put ego aside” to keep patient outcome the priority during multidisciplinary collaboration
“If it were easy, this session would not be here.” These are the words of Jens Ricke (University Hospital Munich, Munich, Germany), who drew attention…
Dimitrios Filippiadis
Illustration: Andy Watt/NB Illustration “The spine is an area where interventional radiologists play a crucial role in both diagnosis and therapeutic management of a…
Peripheral vascular interventions for PAD: “Confronting the healthcare disparities”
Anna K Krawisz In a study recently published in Circulation, researchers found that Black adults underwent significantly more endovascular peripheral vascular interventions (PVI), were treated for more…
CX Aortic Vienna: Cardiac and vascular surgeons collaborate at the vanguard of aortic care
CX Aortic Vienna returns in October for its third edition (24–26 October, Digital), bringing together world-leading specialists from the cardiac and vascular fields to discuss…
Vascular experts establish appropriate use of IVUS in peripheral interventions
Royal Philips today announced an important milestone in the evolving standard of care for treating patients with peripheral vascular disease: the establishment of the first-ever…