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Ra Medical Systems reaches 100 enrolled subjects in pivotal atherectomy clinical...

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Ra Medical Systems has announced the achievement of a milestone with the enrollment of 100 subjects in the pivotal clinical study, according to a...

Artio Medical receives FDA clearance for Solus Gold embolization device

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Artio Medical, a medical device company developing innovative products for the peripheral vascular, neurovascular, and cardiology markets, today announced it received US Food and...

ECR 2022: Interventional oncology is the fourth pillar of oncology—a shift...

Thomas Helmberger ESR
With cancer cases growing worldwide and an increased number of late-stage diseases in elderly patients, there is an increasing need for an integrated approach....

Cardiovascular Systems partners with Innova Vascular to develop full line of...

CardioVascular Systems CSI
Cardiovascular Systems Inc (CSI) recently announced it has partnered with Innova Vascular (Innova) to develop a full line of novel thrombectomy devices.  According to a...

Ra Medical Systems provides update on enrolment in pivotal atherectomy clinical...

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Ra Medical Systems a medical device company focused on developing the excimer laser system to treat vascular diseases, has announced that enrollment has reached...

Availability expansion of Front Line Medicals COBRA-OS aortic occlusion device

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In a press release by Front Line Medical Technologies, the company have announced the expanded availability and distribution of their COBRA-OS (control of bleeding,...

Laura Crocetti

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“I think the future success of ablation was truly unforeseeable, in 1986, when Tito Livraghi published his first paper about ethanol injection in a...

Percutaneous melphalan perfusion can induce significant responses in uveal liver metastases

Percutaneous hepatic perfusion with melphalan for the treatment of metastatic uveal melanoma (mUM) offers a hepatic response rate of 66.7% and good progression-free survival...

Sirtex Medical and Grand Pharmaceutical Group Limited granted NDA approval of...

Sirtex Medical
Sirtex Medical has announced with Grand Pharmaceutical Group Limited, that SIR-Spheres Y-90 resin microspheres have been approved by the national medical products administration (NMPA)...

Interventional News’ top 10 most popular items of January 2022

January’s top 10 features technological advancements, with Cook Medical receiving US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for new drug-eluting stents and Adept Medical...

Fluidx Medical’s embolic device demonstrates promising visibility 

GPX-Clear Image Set FluidX Medical
Fluidx Medical Technology has announced the results of the GPX-Clear embolic device in-vivo research which uses the base GPX technology and incorporates an intermediate-term...

Interventional News’ top 10 most popular items of January 2022

February's
January’s top 10 features technological advancements, with Cook Medical receiving US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for new drug-eluting stents and Adept Medical...

Texray protection equipment shows promise for reducing radiation

According to a press release, Texray radiation protection equipment reduces radiation dose by up to 97% during clinical interventions. This was the main concluding...

BD launches Crosser iQ CTO recanalisation system 

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) has announced the launch and 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the Crosser iQ...

Thrombolex announces “very exciting” interim RESCUE results

Thrombolex recently announced the results of the RESCUE trial’s prespecified interim analysis, of the first 62 evaluable patients, in a late-breaking clinical trials session...

Six-month registry interim data flash early thrombectomy safety in pulmonary embolism...

Inari Medical has announced positive acute and long-term interim results from the first 500 pulmonary embolism patients enrolled in the FlowTriever outcomes registry (FLASH). A...

EPOCH trial reignites radioembolization as treatment for colorectal liver metastases

TheraSphere treatment
In the trial, radioembolization (also called selective internal radiation therapy ) using glass beads (Therasphere; Boston Scientific) containing radioactive yttrium (Y-90) was used as...

NIH grant sets Mercator research underway for local anti-inflammatory DVT therapy

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Mercator MedSystems has recently announced that the DEXTERITY trials research has begun under a technology transfer grant for approximately $300,000 funded by the National...

Embolization comes knocking on knee pain’s door

A wealth of data emerging in the last 18 months, including from a small multicentre, randomised, sham-controlled study of genicular artery embolization for knee...

Interventional News’ top 10 most popular items of 2021

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Interventional News’ top 10 most popular stories of 2021  The top 10 stories of 2021 feature advances in ablation precision, as well as a multicentre,...

Interventional News’ top 10 most popular items of December 2021  

February's
December’s top 10 features findings of a retrospective cost-utility analysis published in BMJ Surgery Interventions & Health Technologies. In addition, highlights from the 2021...

Enabling global provision of image-guided procedures “crucial” to improving health equity

Janice Newsome (Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, USA), tells Interventional News that she considers herself “a little bit of a global citizen”. “As interventional radiologists,...

Teleflex granted reimbursement approval for the “UroLift System” in Japan

Teleflex Incorporated have announced that the company has received reimbursement approval from the Central Social Insurance Medical Council of Japan (Chuikyo) for the UroLift...

Interventional News’ top 10 most popular stories of November 2021 

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November’s top 10 features a pilot study regarding cryoablation for the treatment of early-stage, low-risk breast tumours, as well as data indicating that the Ellipsys vascular access...

Fluidx Medical Technology announces Series A led by multinational strategic investor

Fluidx Medical’s GPX embolic device
Fluidx Medical Technology, has recently announced the oversubscribed closing of the first tranche of the Series A financing round. The Series A was led...

How SIR-Spheres® Y-90 resin microspheres can improve patient outcomes, offer greater...

Bernhard Gebauer
This advertorial is sponsored by Sirtex Medical. Two  experts in the field of interventional radiology,  Bernhard Gebauer (head of interventional radiology at Charité – Universitätsmedizin...

Another string to the interventionalist’s bow: TATO for challenging lesions

NOTE: This content is ONLY available to read in selected countries and geographies This advertorial is sponsored by Terumo Interventional Systems “Ablative treatments are minimally...

One-year snapshot shows cost benefits for prostate artery embolization over gold...

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Prostate artery embolization (PAE) is more cost-effective than transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP), the gold standard for the management of patients with benign...

Aopeng Medical completes clinical trial of robotic-assisted peripheral artery intervention of iliac...

Aopeng Medical's Allvas endovascular intervention surgical robot
Aopeng Medical’s Allvas endovascular intervention surgical robot has successfully completed a first-in-human clinical evaluation of robot-assisted peripheral artery intervention of an iliac artery in the Department of Vascular Surgery at Shanghai Changhai Hospital.   The procedure was performed by Qing-Sheng...

Canon Medical’s new high-definition imaging detector provides the “highest resolution” in...

Canon Medical Systems is introducing an all-new size for its high-definition flat panel detector for vascular and interventional radiology (IR) procedures, a press release from the company reports. Canon Medical claims that...

Interventional News’ top 10 most popular stories of October 2021   

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October’s top 10 features an interview with Maureen Kohi (Chapel Hill, USA), the chair and professor of Radiology (University of North Carolina), and the...

New data to be presented at RSNA 2021 showcasing XACT ACE...

XACT robotic remote controlled
XACT Robotics has announced plans to present oral and virtual presentations at the Radiology Society of North America (RSNA 2021, 28 November–2 December, Chicago,...

Salazar takes reins as UNC Radiology Vascular-Interventional Radiology division chief

The UNC Department of Radiology (Chapel Hill, USA) recently named Gloria Salazar, as the department’s next division chief of vascular and interventional radiology (VIR). Following...

Cryoablation could freeze out lumpectomy in early-stage, low-risk breast tumours

A pilot study, published in the Journal of Cancer Therapy, reveals that percutaneous cryoablation of early-stage, low-risk breast cancer tumours smaller than 15mm presents a...

Sarasota team completes “world first” procedure with ACE Xtend robotic system

XACT robotic remote controlled
XACT Robotics today announced what it describes as the world’s first remote-controlled robotic instrument insertion and non-linear steering during an interventional oncology percutaneous procedure...

Innovative embolic device shows promise for interventional oncology drug delivery

Fluidx Medical’s GPX embolic device
Fluidx Medical’s GPX embolic device has released initial results for Oncology Drug Delivery. Fluidx Medical Technology announced that a next-generation, doxorubicin-loaded GPX embolic device...

Varian announces new vice president of Medical Affairs for Interventional Solutions

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Varian is excited to announce David Hahn (clinical assistant professor of Radiology, University of Chicago Pritzker School, Chicago, USA) joined the company as vice...

Utilising angioplasty to treat stenosis post EndoAVF

NOTE: This video is ONLY available to watch in selected countries and geographies This is advertorial sponsored by BD.  Reinterventions following WavelinQ™ EndoAVF System creation...

Screening with ultrasound and vessel mapping prerequisite to success with WavelinQ™...

NOTE: This edtorial is ONLY available to read in selected countries and geographies This is advertorial sponsored by BD. Focusing on the importance of...

Patients’ wishes and multidisciplinary approach central to EndoAVF creation with WavelinQ

NOTE: This editorial is ONLY available to read in selected countries and geographies This advertorial is sponsored by BD. This advertorial is part of...

Minimally-invasive, outpatient WavelinQ offers an alternative to open surgery

NOTE: This video is ONLY available to watch in selected countries and geographies This advertorial is sponsored by BD. This advertorial is part of...

Reliability, ease-of-use and availability have made Skater™ drainage catheters a go-to...

This advertorial is sponsored by Argon Medical Devices Placing a drain is an important, quotidian, “bread and butter” procedure that often has a tremendous impact...

Treating the dysfunctional vascular access: The expert’s low-pressure, low-dose approach

NOTE: This advertorial is ONLY available to watch in selected countries and geographies This is advertorial sponsored by BD.  Panagiotis M Kitrou (Patras University Hospital, Patras,...

Percutaneous microwave and cryoablation suitable for sarcoma lung metastases treatment  

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Percutaneous microwave and cryoablation allow for repeat minimally invasive treatment of sarcoma lung metastases with mild complications, according to the conclusions of a study...

Phase 1 clinical trial of pembrolizumab immunotherapy plus cryoablation for inoperable...

Interventional News for specialists
A phase 1 clinical trial for the treatment of patients with inoperable mesothelioma, with both pembrolizumab immunotherapy and cryoablation, has begun in New Jersey...

ECLIPSE shows cryoablation effective for local control of pulmonary long-term metastatic...

Cryoablation is effective for local tumour control in patients with pulmonary metastatic disease. Within the ECLIPSE study, cryoablation had no significant impact on the...

Maureen Kohi

“I strongly believe that you cannot be what you cannot see. If you want more women or under-represented minorities (URMs) to enter the field...

IceCure Medical announces updated regulatory strategy in China for the IceSense3...

Interventional News for specialists
IceCure submitted an amendment to the registration certificate granted for the IceSense3 system by China's national medical products administration (NMPA), which will allow IceCure...