Tag: BIBA Briefings

BIBA Briefings: Critical limb ischaemia interventions buck trend for emergency only...

A BIBA MedTech Insights survey (conducted May 2020) indicates a trend towards centres only performing emergency percutaneous peripheral procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic. However,...

BIBA Briefings: FDA approval of IN.PACT AV is a boon for...

Last month (November), the FDA approved Medtronic’s paclitaxel-coated balloon IN.PACT AV for the management of failing arteriovenous fistulae (AVF). Approval for the device was based...

BIBA Briefings: Henry V can inspire us to develop innovative techniques...

During a session on radiation protection technologies at the 2019 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting (25­–29 September, San Francisco, USA), Lloyd W Klein (Rush Medical College,...

Poll favours interventional radiologists to perform mechanical thrombectomy in lieu of...

According to a BIBA MedTech survey, 52% of neurointerventionalists believe that they are the only specialists who have the relevant skills and experience to perform...

Private equity firm invests in UK centre performing EVLA for varicose...

A private equity firm, Palatine (Manchester, UK), has announced that it has made a “significant investment” into a UK centre—Veincentre—that provides endovenous laser ablation...

UK consensus statement on renal denervation “strongly encourages” clinicians to tell...

In a new consensus statement, the Joint UK Societies (JUKS)—which includes the British Society of Interventional Radiology—say that the evidence for renal denervation is “insufficient”...