Tag: radiofrequency ablation
New data presented by recognised speakers during SIR Best of abstracts...
This year’s Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) annual scientific meeting (23–28 March, Salt Lake City, USA) gave recognition to select abstracts during the closing...
Interventional approaches to benign bone tumours
Patients diagnosed with benign bone tumours will be relieved to know that these are not malignant, and some tumours will involute spontaneously. However, this...
Thyroid thermal ablation “comes of age” internationally
The Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) 2023 annual meeting (9–13 September, Copenhagen, Denmark) saw presenters explore where thyroid thermal ablation treatments...
Non-surgical treatment significantly reduces knee pain in adults, especially those over...
Genicular nerve radiofrequency ablation is a minimally invasive treatment for knee pain due to osteoarthritis of the knee, and can significantly reduce pain, especially...
US FDA clears Mygen M-3004 and Myoblate radiofrequency ablation system
RF Medical is a Korean thermal ablation system manufacturer and the creator of the Mygen M-3004 generator and specialised electrodes including Myoblate. Both of...
AB-LATE02 randomised trial to probe “synergistic” immunotherapy and ablation strategy for...
A randomised trial—AB-LATE02—will assess the efficacy of a combination of neoadjuvant atezolizumab, and adjuvant atezolizumab and bevacizumab with radiofrequency ablation (RFA) as a treatment...
Swift, significant, sustained pain relief with the OsteoCool RF ablation system
This educational supplement is sponsored by Medtronic.
In this supplement:
Spotlight on the OsteoCool RF ablation system
Watching a “small Canadian invention” transform cancer care:...
Ablation-confirmation software must become the new normal for IRs to be...
“If interventional radiologists wish to become competitive with surgeons, the availability of software enabling the accurate comparison of pre- and post-interventional CT or...
RFA with OsteoCool leads to “rapid and sustained” pain relief in...
Treating patients with metastatic bone disease by radiofrequency ablation (RFA) using the OsteoCool system (Medtronic) results in rapid and statistically significant improvement in pain...
New ethanol gel formulation holds “promise” for effective ablation in low...
“Our solution to the limitations of ethanol ablation is the polymer ethyl cellulose,” Erika Chelales (Center for Global Women’s Health Technologies, Duke University, Durham,...
Compression after radiofrequency ablation of varicose veins “adds no clinical benefit”
A randomised controlled trial has found that clinical and patient-reported outcomes following radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of varicose veins without compression are no worse than...
Stratus Medical completes private placement financing and acquisition of the NimbusRF
Stratus Medical, a new company created to focus on advancing radiofrequency (RF) ablation treatment for chronic pain, has announced that it completed a private...
Phase III RCTs needed to prove radiofrequency ablation is effective against...
Interventional radiologists must become involved in the multidisciplinary development of phase III randomised controlled trials (RCTs) to further assess the role of radiofrequency ablation...
Radiofrequency ablation used to treat cancer pain for patients
Interventional radiologists at the Emory Johns Creek Hospitals (EJCH), Johns Creek, USA, are using radiofrequency ablation to reduce pain for cancer patients.
Radiofrequency ablation is...
