Guerbet has announced that the Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte (BfArM; The German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices) has now approved Lipiodol Ultra-Fluid for use after intra-arterial catheterisation of the hepatic artery for the visualisation and localisation of hepatocellular carcinoma in the intermediate stage in adults.
According to our results, the physician who performs prostatic artery embolization procedures, even with a ceiling suspended shield, would reach the annual radiation limit for the left eye with just one procedure per week, writes Gustavo Andrade, Recife, Brazil.
The 2017 edition of the annual PAIRS meeting was held in Dubai 15–18 March and reflected the growing enthusiasm of the interventional radiology community in the Middle East, writes Hicham T Abada.
The 459-patient randomised controlled SARAH study shows that local treatments of advanced or inoperable hepatocellular carcinoma with selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) did not lead to a planned superiority difference in overall survival compared to standard-of-care systemic therapy with sorafenib. However, SIRT had far fewer side-effects and patients who received this treatment had a significantly better quality of life.
Two patients were treated for hepatocellular carcinoma and one patient was treated for malignant colorectal cancer metastasised to the liver.
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN) grantee George Miller, head of the Cancer Immunology Program at Perlmutter and vice chair for research in the Department of Surgery at NYU Langone and his research team have discovered a novel and potentially targetable way that pancreatic cancer cells hide themselves from the immune system. The findings, published online in the journal Nature Medicine, have the potential to broach a new era of effective immunotherapies for pancreatic cancer.
Terumo Europe NV has announced the first commercial clinical case using Quiremspheres—the next generation radioembolization microspheres for advanced unresectable liver cancer.
Goetz Richter, Clinic for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Stuttgart, Germany, presented breaking data from the Miracle 1 multicentre hepatocellular carcinoma trial at The Symposium on Clinical Interventional Oncology (CIO, 4–5 February, Hollywood, Florida). He spoke to Interventional News on the role of drug-eluting particles in interventional oncology.
“Cryoablation of metastatic breast cancer is a safe and effective method that allows local control of the disease,” Claudio Pusceddu told delegates at the European Congress of Radiology (1–5 March, Vienna, Austria).
In a new study published in JCI Insight, UC Davis researchers have shown that combining high-intensity focused ultrasound with two immunotherapies (a PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor and TLR9 agonist) can produce excellent response rates in mouse models of epithelial cancer. They also found that, for the combination to be effective, immunotherapies must come first.
Angiodynamics has announced it has received CE mark certification for the Solero microwave tissue ablation system. Solero and its accessories are indicated for the ablation of soft tissue during open, laparoscopic or percutaneous procedures. The Solero system is not intended for cardiac use.
“Interventional radiology has always been characterised by its innovative spirit. We are now seeing progress with new procedures being developed to create percutaneous arteriovenous fistulae. I am impatiently awaiting the results of the NEAT (Novel endovascular access trial) study,” Gireesh Mukund Warawdekar, consultant interventional radiologist at several leading hospitals in Mumbai, India, and 2014–16 president of the Indian Society of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (ISVIR), tells Interventional News.
“War (as in turf war) is an emotional word because in wars, people get hurt. I believe we truly care about the patients we serve and the last thing we want is for patients to get hurt. […] By and large, we have found that approaching role extension issues through discussion is preferable to confrontation,” Gregory John Slater, president, The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR), tells Interventional News. Slater is a radiologist at Queensland X-Ray, Brisbane, Australia and a visiting medical officer at several private hospitals. He enjoys the outdoors, and like any true blue Aussie, loves throwing a shrimp on the barbie.
QT Vascular has announced that it has entered into an asset purchase option agreement with Medtronic, for the acquisition of the non-drug coated Chocolate PTA.
Peripheral artery disease patients who were treated with an anti-inflammatory steroid injected directly into the tissue surrounding their leg artery showed a significant reduction in inflammatory biomarkers.
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