Tag: sir 2023

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Interventional News’ top 10 most popular stories of April 2023

Several of Interventional News’ most read stories from April covered the topic of interventional oncology (IO)—its interrelation with immuno-oncology, a robot-assisted lung metastases treatment,...

All is not equal where US IR procedure access is concerned

Nima Kokabi (Emory Healthcare, Atlanta, USA) addressed the “uncomfortable truth” of healthcare disparities in the USA specifically within interventional radiology (IR) in a presentation...

SIR 2023 puts spotlight on Latin American IR

A session at the recent Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) annual scientific meeting (4–9 March, Phoenix, USA) put the focus on the landscape of...
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Interventional News’ top 10 most popular stories of March 2023

Interventional News’ most popular stories from March included those covering new embolization and radiofrequency ablation data presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR)...
aliya

New interventional oncology data show potential for Aliya pulsed electric field...

New interventional oncology data from Galvanize demonstrate positive preclinical and early clinical study results using the Aliya pulsed electric field (PEF) system. The Aliya PEF...
bariatric

SIR 2023: Bariatric arterial embolization associated with “significant” muscle-sparing weight loss

Lead researchers Clifford Weiss and Daniel Giraldo Herrera (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA) presented their recent bariatric arterial embolization (BAE) study...

RESCUE trial shows reduction in segmental and main pulmonary artery occlusions

Robert A Lookstein, who is executive vice chair, Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital (New...
pain

Injectable tissue provides significant, long-term relief for chronic back pain

A minimally invasive treatment that injects allograft disc tissue into the spine to relieve pain associated with degenerative disc disease provides significant improvement in...
congressional

Study finds PAE “highly effective” long-term treatment for enlarged prostate

Prostate artery embolization (PAE) provides long-term effectiveness in treating urinary symptoms from an enlarged prostate gland, according to new research to be presented at...