Tag: RFA
Evaluation of transpulmonary chemoembolization (TPCE)
The incidence of lung cancer has increased considerably in the last few decades with the lung as the most common site of metastatic involvement....
UK’s NICE recommends RFA for osteoarthritic knee pain
UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) announced on 28 June that it recommends the use of radiofrequency ablation (RFA) for the...
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...
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...
Ablation 2.0: Improved precision as interventionalists approach A0
Ablation is entering a new era of increased precision and quantification, the interventional radiology (IR) community argues, with outcomes that match or surpass those...
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,...
RFA with OsteoCool effectively reduces pain from osteolytic bone metastases out...
Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a successful treatment option for patients with painful osteolytic bone metastases, Jason Levy (Northside, Forsyth, and Cherokee Hospitals, Atlanta, USA)...
Road “wide open” for Osteocool radiofrequency ablation in patients with painful...
Jason Levy (Atlanta, USA) and Sandeep Bagla (Virginia, USA) talk to Interventional News about preliminary results from the ongoing OPuS One study. The OPuS...
Stereotactic radiofrequency ablation is effective even in tumours over 3cm, study...
Multi-probe stereotactic radiofrequency ablation (SRFA) with intraprocedural image fusion represents an efficient minimally invasive therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), even with tumour sizes larger...
CT-guided radiofrequency thermal ablation a safe alternative to surgery for HCC...
Percutaneous CT-guided radiofrequency thermal ablation is a safe and effective alternative treatment option in patients with pulmonary metastases from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) that cannot...
Theoretical benefit with microwave ablation “does not translate into clinical benefit”...
A prospective randomised controlled study that compared outcomes between hepatocellular carcinoma patients who were treated by microwave ablation with those who were treated by...
Early data finds image-guided ablation “feasible and well tolerated” for oligometastatic...
A retrospective review of single-institution experience, published in July in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR), suggests that percutaneous image-guided ablation is...
Early data suggest ablation has favourable outcomes for selected small cell...
A preliminary analysis suggests that thermal ablation may be effective in selected patients with local small cell lung cancer without adjuvant therapy. The research...
