Interventional Radiology

Interventional radiology uses tools like embolization devices to provide minimally invasive medical diagnosis and treatment using images.

Rapid Medical's TigerTrieve stent-retriever neuro thrombectomy system.

News | Stroke

Thrombectomy Market Will Grow With Newly Approved Adjustable Stent Retriever

April 7, 2021 — Market research firm GlobalData's new report, Neurovascular Thrombectomy Devices (Neurology Devices), sh ...

April 07, 2021

Virtual tour views of a University of Colorado cath lab during a CTO procedure (top left), the new robotic EP lab at Banner Health (top right), a bi-plane EP/cath combo lab at Baylor Heart Hospital Dallas (bottom left, and an ECMO procedure at Tufts Medical Center cath lab. Photos by Dave Fornell

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Virtual Tours of Cath and EP Labs

There is a lot of interest in how other hospitals organize and equip their cardiac cath labs and electrophysiology (EP) ...

March 25, 2021

Boston Scientific's TheraSphere Y-90 Glass Microspheres enable selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT), or radioembolization, for hepatocellular carcinoma. This treats liver cancer with low toxicity using millions of microscopic glass beads containing radioactive yttrium (Y-90), delivered directly to liver tumors via catheter. The result in minimal radiation exposure to surrounding healthy tissue.

News | Interventional Radiology

FDA Clears Boston Scientific TheraSphere Y-90 Transcatheter Liver Embolization Microspheres

March 18, 2021 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Boston Scientific's TheraSphere Y-90 Glass ...

March 18, 2021

News | Venous Therapies

FDA Clears Zilver Vena Venous Self-Expanding Stent

February 22, 2021 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently cleared the Cook Medical Zilver Vena Venous ...

February 22, 2021

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. Interventional X-ray market.

Feature | Angiography | By Bhvita Jani

Interventional X-ray Equipment Markets Plummeted in 2020 Due to COVID

January 19, 2021 – With the postponement of non-essential elective surgeries and medical procedures in 2020 to conserve ...

January 19, 2021

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)

New Angioplasty System Dilates Calcified and Fibrotic Vessels

November 13, 2020 — The new U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared XO Score system was successfully used to ...

November 13, 2020

News | VIVA

The Latest Vascular Interventional Clinical Data Presented at VIVA 2020

October 5, 2020 — The Vascular Interventional Advances (VIVA) virtual conference will feature 10 late-breaking clinical ...

October 05, 2020

IVC filter guidelines. The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) published new inferior vena cava (IVC) filter guidelines.

News | Vena Cava Filters

Society of Interventional Radiology Publishes IVC Filter Guidelines

September 9, 2020 — The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) published new clinical practice guidelines that ...

September 09, 2020

An example of the 3-D vascular roadmapping technology on the Ziehm mobile C-arm systems.

News | Mobile C-Arms

Ziehm Imaging Acquires French Imaging Software Developer Therenva

August 18, 2020 — Ziehm Imaging announces the acquisition of Therenva, a French-based developer of planning and imaging ...

August 18, 2020

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company, and Bard) launched the Halo One Thin-Walled Guiding Sheath, designed to perform as both a guiding sheath and an introducer sheath, for use in peripheral arterial and venous procedures requiring percutaneous introduction of intravascular devices.

News | Vascular Access

BD Launches of Halo One Thin-Walled Guiding Sheath

June 8, 2020 – BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) launched the Halo One Thin-Walled Guiding Sheath, designed to perform ...

June 08, 2020

Bilateral pulmonary embolisms seen on spectral CT. Photo courtesy of Siemens Healthineers.

Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Practical Diagnosis and Treatment of Suspected Venous Thromboembolism During COVID-19 Pandemic

May 4, 2020 — A committee comprised of vascular surgeons, medical physicians and technologists from the University of ...

May 04, 2020

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 | By Katie Caron

Emerging Trends in Medical Imaging

A new year — and decade — offers the opportunity to reflect on the advancements and challenges of years gone by and ...

April 03, 2020

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 | Dave Fornell, Editor

Philips Developing X-ray Free Cath Lab Imaging to Replace or Supplement Angiography

Philips is working on a prototype cath lab angiographic imaging system that might be able to replace the current X-ray ...

March 12, 2020

COVID-19 outbreak in Seattle cancels SIR 2020 meeting. Interventional radiology meeting cancelled. #COVID19 #coronavirus #2019nCoV

News | Interventional Radiology | Melinda Taschetta-Millane

SIR 2020 Cancelled Due to COVID-19 Outbreak in Seattle

March 9, 2020 — As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) slowly spreads across the globe, more industry conferences are ...

March 09, 2020

he University of Wisconsin (UW) Health’s University Hospital in Madison, Wis., recently became the first facility in the United States to install the Artis icono biplane angiography imaging system from Siemens Healthineers.

News | Angiography

UW Health First U.S. Installation of Siemens Artis icono Biplane Angiography System

February 12, 2020 — The University of Wisconsin (UW) Health’s University Hospital in Madison, Wis., recently became the ...

February 12, 2020