January 19, 2021 – With the postponement of non-essential elective surgeries and medical procedures in 2020 to conserve medical resources for...
Interventional Radiology
Interventional radiology (IR) uses angiographic X-ray-guided, catheter based interventional procedures rather than open surgical procedures. The growth in IR has been rapid over the past decade as medicine moves toward less invasive procedures. These include, therapies for for interventional cancer treatments, including embolization, peripheral artery disease (PAD) revascularization, endovascular repair, and interventional pulmonary embolism therapies.
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October 5, 2020 — The Vascular Interventional Advances (VIVA) virtual conference will feature 10 late-breaking clinical trials sessions...
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September 9, 2020 — The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) published new clinical practice guidelines that provide evidence-based...
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June 8, 2020 – BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) launched the Halo One Thin-Walled Guiding Sheath, designed to perform as both a guiding sheath and an...
News | Venous Therapies | February 22, 2021
February 22, 2021 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently cleared the Cook Medical Zilver Vena Venous...
More complex, longer interventional procedures such as structural heart interventions or this revascularization of a coronary chronic total occlusion (CTO) at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, requires angiography imaging systems that have improved image detail and lower radiation dose. However, purchase of new systems was put on hold by many hospitals in 2020 due to the sudden drop in elective procedures and diversion of resources due to the COVID-19. Photo by Dave Fornell.
Feature | Angiography | January 19, 2021 | By Bhvita Jani
January 19, 2021 – With the postponement of non-essential elective surgeries and medical procedures in 2020 to conserve...
The FDA-Cleared XO Score is different. XO Score technology allows users to convert basic angioplasty balloons in the hospital's existing inventory into sophisticated scoring, cutting, and infusion/delivery devices.
News | Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) | November 13, 2020
November 13, 2020 — The new U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared XO Score system was successfully used to...
News | VIVA | October 05, 2020
October 5, 2020 — The Vascular Interventional Advances (VIVA) virtual conference will feature 10 late-breaking clinical...
News | Vena Cava Filters | September 09, 2020
September 9, 2020 — The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) published new clinical practice guidelines that...
An example of the 3-D vascular roadmapping technology on the Ziehm mobile C-arm systems.
News | Mobile C-Arms | August 18, 2020
August 18, 2020 — Ziehm Imaging announces the acquisition of Therenva, a French-based developer of planning and imaging...
News | Vascular Access | June 08, 2020
June 8, 2020 – BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) launched the Halo One Thin-Walled Guiding Sheath, designed to perform...
Bilateral pulmonary embolisms seen on spectral CT. Photo courtesy of Siemens Healthineers.
Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | May 04, 2020
May 4, 2020 — A committee comprised of vascular surgeons, medical physicians and technologists from the University of...
An example of Philips’ TrueVue technology, which offers photo-realistic rendering and the ability to change the location of the lighting source on 3-D ultrasound images. In this example of two Amplazer transcatheter septal occluder devices in the heart, the operator demonstrating the product was able to push the lighting source behind the devices into the other chamber of the heart. This illuminated a hole that was still present that the occluders did not seal. Photo by Dave Fornell
Feature | Interventional Radiology | April 03, 2020 | By Katie Caron
A new year — and decade — offers the opportunity to reflect on the advancements and challenges of years gone by and...
Philips Healthcare's new Fiber Optic RealShape (FORS) technology creates real-time 3-D imaging of anatomy and devices inside the body using light, rather than X-rays. FORS uses light traveling through hair-thin fiber optics inside special FORS enabled catheter and guidewires.
Feature | Angiography | March 12, 2020 | Dave Fornell, Editor
Philips is working on a prototype cath lab angiographic imaging system that might be able to replace the current X-ray...
News | Interventional Radiology | March 09, 2020 | Melinda Taschetta-Millane
March 9, 2020 — As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) slowly spreads across the globe, more industry conferences are...
News | Angiography | February 12, 2020
February 12, 2020 — The University of Wisconsin (UW) Health’s University Hospital in Madison, Wis., recently became the...
DSA image obtained approximately 24 hours after 1 mg/h IA tPA infusion, 500 U/h heparin via peripheral IV, and daily oral aspirin (81 mg) shows improved perfusion of digital arteries, albeit with suboptimal vascular blush of distal second and third phalanges. Photo courtesy of ARRS
News | Interventional Radiology | February 11, 2020
February 11, 2020 — An ahead-of-print article in the April issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR)...
News | Interventional Radiology | February 04, 2020
February 4, 2020 — For some patients, kidney cancer can be effectively treated without surgery, according to the...
Videos | Radiation Dose Management | December 19, 2019
Mahadevappa Mahesh, Ph.D., chief of medical physicist and professor of radiology and medical physics, Johns Hopkins...
