Adam Pearce
Vacuum-assisted thrombectomy offers “multi-level, all-in-one treatment” for acute limb ischaemia
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Dominic Howard (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, UK) shares his...
Why treat DVT interventionally with a “wall-to-wall” mechanical thrombectomy approach?
In a recent interview, Marie Josee van Rijn from Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Emma Wilton from Oxford, UK, provided insight into the transformative power...
Computer-assisted vacuum thrombectomy (CAVT) technology broadens patient applicability for complex disease...
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Consultant interventional radiologist, Andrew Wigham (Oxford, UK) examines his experience with...
First release #HOPE4LIVER data reveals “exciting” potential of histotripsy for liver...
Clinical professor of radiology Mishal Mendiratta-Lala (Michigan, USA), expands on the first data release from the #HOPE4LIVER trial, presented during the FIRST@CIRSE session at...
First clinical experiences with the Epione® Robot prove to be a...
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Thierry de Baère (Paris, France), Laurent Milot (Lyon, France) and Govindarajan...
Five-year RCT data provide upbeat message on Luminor paclitaxel-coated balloon’s safety...
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The EffPac trial was a prospective, multicentre, randomised controlled trial (RCT)...
VOLA II trial results to ‘change practice’ and ‘improve outcomes’
“We wanted to find a common language between interventional radiologists and nephrologists and we wanted to be sure that the angioplasty we have done...
IR is a therapeutic field and “we want to focus on...
Christoph Binkert (Winterthur, Switzerland) and current president of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) tells Interventional News about the three-fold focus...
Specialty status “crucial” to give IR control over training future generations
Raman Uberoi (Oxford, UK), who delivered this year’s Andreas Gruentzig Lecture at the CIRSE annual meeting told Interventional News: “We need to radically think about how...
Expanding the treatment window for the effective management of DVT
“The median thrombus age of DVT patients treated in our centre is 14 days – says Dr Andrew Wigham from Oxford University Hospitals. –...
New TINTIN data indicate longer term success of DCB and stent...
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The combined use of a drug-eluting device and a vascular scaffold...
Why might CLOUT and DEFIANCE open the door to a new...
Steven Abramowitz (Washington DC, USA) explains the significance of the CLOUT registry—the only registry capturing data on mechanical thrombectomy in deep venous thrombosis (DVT)....
BIOPACT RCT suggests Passeo-18 non-inferior to IN.PACT Admiral DCB
Koen Deloose (Dendermonde, Belgium) talks to Vascular News about the key one-year data from the BIOPACT randomised controlled non-inferiority trial, which evaluated the safety...
First time data release: View the full IN.PACT AV Access trial...
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In a late-breaking Podium 1st presentation at the 2022 Charing Cross...
Evidence in the SFA: DES ‘will be the standard of care’...
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Marianne Brodmann (Medical University of Graz, Division of Angiology, Austria) talks...
Evidence in the SFA: Eluvia has a “significantly better” patency rate...
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Gunnar Tepe (interventional radiologist, Germany) discusses the results and subsequent impact...
Evidence in the SFA: Considering the data when making decisions for...
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Koen Deloose (vascular surgeon, Belgium) looks at the evidence needed in order...
Evidence in the SFA: What kind of stent should we use?
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Antonio Micari (interventional cardiologist, Italy) gives his thoughts on the EMINENT...
Evidence in the SFA: Best strategy for treatment of the femoropopliteal...
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Yann Goueffic (vascular surgeon, France) discusses the evidence that is needed...
Time matters in the trauma setting
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With trauma comes the challenge of not knowing what a patient is...
Expert raises red flags over forgotten stents and how they fail
Many patients are outliving their gastrointestinal (GI) stents, and this can pose particular problems. “In the last few years, we have seen quite a dramatic increase in patients who...
BSIR 2021: Interventional radiologists rev up on IR registry and build...
The British Society for Interventional Radiology (BSIR) has set up an interventional radiology (IR) registry to capture a glimpse of the scope, breadth and...
UK interventional radiologists declare top reasons to attend BSIR 2021 in...
After COP26, it is time for the interventional radiology world to congregate in Glasgow, UK. Diversity, veterinary interventions, sun tan, or single malt–everyone has...
CiDA 2021 sets out to tackle current controversies polarising dialysis access...
The upcoming Controversies in Dialysis Access (CiDA) meeting in Dallas, Texas is stepping up the scrutiny on the controversies and questions currently igniting the...
Episode 4: Real world data show IN.PACT Admiral DCB is “very...
In this penultimate episode of a special five-part series on the history of drug-coated balloons (DCBs), Jos van den Berg (Lugano, Switzerland) is joined...
Sirtex Medical and China Grand Pharmaceutical announce successful first administration of...
Sirtex Medical (Sirtex) has announced that the first procedure of selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) using SIRSpheres Y-90 resin microspheres in China was successfully...
Philips Azurion with SmartCT – first user experiences
After a successful introduction of Azurion with SmartCT in 2020, many users have experienced working with the new solution from Philips. Watch the video...
SIR to CMS: Protect access to patient care, reverse devastating Medicare...
Proposed cuts to physician reimbursements could shutter practices and leave thousands of medically vulnerable patients without access to care, the Society of Interventional Radiology...
Why Rotarex is my first choice treatment in patients with bypass...
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Bruno Migliara (Peschiera del Garda, Italy) talks to Vascular News about the reasons...
Scitech Medical announces enrolment in PMCF study
Scitech Medical has announced it has begun enrolling patients for the company’s PMCF (SOLARIS Peripheral PMCF Trial) study.
Led by Michel Bosiers (St. Franziskus-Hospital, Münster,...
ESH position paper highlights renal denervation as a third option for...
The European Society of Hypertension (ESH) has presented an updated position paper on renal denervation (RDN) in a pre-ESH congress satellite symposium (10–11 September,...
Argon Medical Devices announces launch of minimally invasive drainage catheter
Argon Medical Devices has announced the commercial launch of Skater mini-loop drainage catheters in the USA and the European Union.
The Skater mini-loop is a...
Canadian Association for Interventional Radiology names Tara Graham as new president
Tara Graham (Trillium Health Partners, Toronto, Canada) has become the new president of the Canadian Association for Interventional Radiology (CAIR), assuming the new role...
Scitech Medical’s Embosoft microspheres receive CE mark approval for vascular embolization
Scitech Medical, has announced that it has received CE mark approval for the Embosoft microspheres for use in vascular embolization of hypervascular tumours, symptomatic...
CAVA RCT sets stage for pivot to PORTs as central venous...
The CAVA (Central venous access devices for the delivery of systemic anticancer therapy) randomised controlled trial (RCT), just published in The Lancet, has revealed...
Episode 3: The unique recipe for long-term clinical benefit with IN.PACT™...
In this third episode of a special five-part series on the history of DCBs, Jos van den Berg (Lugano, Switzerland) moderates a Interventional News roundtable...
Imaging, precise tools, in-procedure ablation zone visibility and confirmation of success...
Constantinos Sofocleous (New York, USA) sits down with Interventional News to discuss how image-guided thermal ablation, when it is deployed with an intent to...
How it’s made: Interlock and IDC Detachable Coils
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In case of embolisation, Interlock and IDC Detachable Coils (Boston Scientific)...
IN.PACT™ AV Access trial demonstrates “outstanding” patency rates & “significant” advantages...
Andrew Holden (Auckland, New Zealand) presents the latest results from the IN.PACT™ AV Access trial (Medtronic), which indicate “outstanding” target-lesion primary patency rates of 52.2% through 24...
Why histotripsy may be the next leap forward in ablative therapy
Histotripsy, which was invented at the University of Michigan, uses pulsed sound waves to destroy tissue. It is a non-invasive and non-thermal mechanism that...
Episode 2: Are all peripheral drug-coated balloons created equal?
“Not all Drug-Coated Balloons (DCBs) are created equal”, Juan Granada (New York, USA), tells Vascular News in this second episode of a four-part series on the history of DCBs.
Granada discusses why there...
Episode 1: Luminor DCB in the femoropopliteal segment: Outstanding safety and...
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Koen Deloose (Dendermonde, Belgium) moderates a three-part Vascular News series about the Luminor...
Episode 2: Experience of Luminor DCB in the below-the-knee segment
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Koen Deloose (Dendermonde, Belgium) moderates a three-part Vascular News series about the Luminor...
Episode 3: Not all DCBs are the same: Luminor TransferTech nanotechnology...
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Koen Deloose (Dendermonde, Belgium) moderates a three-part Vascular News series about the Luminor...
Bringing 3D into the lab: SmartCT, the next-generation imaging system
Constantino Peña (Miami, USA) moderates an Interventional News webinar focusing on how the SmartCT system (Philips) can “transform” IR suites and the importance of...
Trialists’ insights on the 2-year results from the COMPARE trial
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Sabine Steiner (Leipzig, Germany) sits down with Michael Jaff, the CMO...
SIR 2021 Abstract of the Year: OPuS One data “should move...
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Jason Levy (Atlanta, USA) and Elizabeth David (Toronto, Canada) talk to Interventional...
SIR 2021 president underscores COVID-19, diversity and the value of image-guided...
Interventional radiologists were often at the frontlines, doing remarkably large numbers of procedures treating COVID-19 patients and among the only specialties that carried on...
The reluctant cowboy takes aim at a fistful of IR myths
The adrenaline-rush of seeing or doing an elegant procedure that can alter the course of a patient’s life is often the career-inspiring doorway into...
“You have to help the next woman up”: Highlighting pioneering women...
President of the American College of Radiology (ACR), Geraldine McGinty is also a radiologist and the chief strategy officer, as well as the chief...
Episode 1: Go behind the scenes to delve into the birth...
To mark the 20-year anniversary of drug-coated balloons, Bruno Scheller (Homburg/Saar, Germany) and Gunnar Tepe (Rosenheim, Germany), talk to Vascular News about their contributions...
‘Indisputable evidence’ that DCB is the “gold standard” for treating vascular...
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Tobias Steinke (Düsseldorf, Germany), Matteo Tozzi (Varese, Italy) and Robert Shahverdyan...
CONSEQUENT study shows low mortality and TLR rates in PAD patients...
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Ralf Langhoff (Berlin, Germany) talks to Vascular News about the 12-month...
24-month AVeNEW data show significantly better target lesion patency of Covera™...
Bart Dolmatch (Portola Valley, USA) talks to Vascular News about some of the key data highlights from the 24-month AVeNEW trial, which compared the safety and efficacy...
The perils of positive news filters, and silent, dangerous revolution of...
“Not everything that is published is true or important” and “always be critical, but not cynical,” urges Jim Reekers, editor-in-chief of CVIR Endovascular, as...
How a personal experience of contracting COVID-19 as a healthcare professional...
Felipe Nasser (São Paulo, Brazil) talks to Interventional News about his experience of the COVID-19 pandemic after contracting the SARS-CoV-2 virus himself, saying that the infection and period of isolation “made me think...
DISRUPT PAD III results and how they fit into the endovascular...
Moderate-to-severe calcification in peripheral arteries is an “ongoing battle” in in the endovascular treatment of complex lesions, William Gray (Philadelphia, USA), tells Vascular News.
Gray explains that there are...
Philips launches QuickClear mechanical thrombectomy system for blood clot removal in...
Royal Philips has announced the launch of the QuickClear mechanical thrombectomy system. The single-use system delivers an all-in-one aspiration pump and catheter to remove...
Siemens Healthineers agrees to acquire Varian in US$16.4 billion deal
Siemens Healthineers has announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Varian Medical Systems, a US company active in the area of cancer research...
Early experience shows Caterpillar™ embolization device can be accurately deployed and...
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Ripal Gandhi (Miami, USA) outlines his initial experiences with the Caterpillar™ Arterial Embolization Device (BD), a product, which he...
Real-world data with long-term follow-up confirm no increased mortality signal with...
Data from an unselected, real-world cohort of 64,000 claimants of the German BARMER Health Insurance reveals no signal of increased long-term mortality when paclitaxel-based...
