Features

Monday, 30 Jan 2012

Regula von Allmen, vascular research fellow, Division of Surgery, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK, wrote to Vascular News an article based on the discussions from the chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) session presented at the VEITHsymposium. [read more]

Tuesday, 10 Jan 2012

Anthony Watkinson, UK, was recently named as a Distinguished Fellow at the CIRSE 2011 conference. He spoke to Interventional News on the importance of training in the subspecialty. [read more]

Tuesday, 10 Jan 2012

The liver cancer team from the University Hospital of Essen, Germany, which trains physicians across Europe in radioembolization, answered some key questions on the therapy for Interventional News. [read more]

Friday, 25 Nov 2011

Dierk Vorwerk and Andy Adam had slightly differing views on the question: “Should interventional radiologists get the necessary training to be completely in-charge of patients, including having ownership of beds and wards?” They shared their outlook at the CIRSE annual meeting in Munich, Germany. [read more]

Friday, 25 Nov 2011

Karel Bakker, Heemstede, The Netherlands, chair of the International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF) and of the International Diabetes Federation’s Diabetic Foot Programme shares the importance of the 2011 Practical and Specific Guidelines on the Management and Prevention of the Diabetic Foot. [read more]

Thursday, 10 Nov 2011

Scott O Trerotola, Philadelphia, USA told Interventional News that fistula declotting has become a mainstay of interventional radiology practices in the USA. He recently received a BSIR honorary membership at the annual meeting in Glasgow, UK. [read more]

Friday, 24 Jun 2011

Martin Radvany, Division of Interventional Neuroradiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore, USA, spoke to Interventional News about the new devices available for the treatment of embolic stroke. [read more]

Monday, 06 Jun 2011

Bill Cook passed away at the age of 80 on 15 April 2011, after courageously fighting congestive heart failure for several years. With his passing the interventional community lost a great friend whose vision of interventional treatment contributed to the rapid growth and development of our field. Frederick S Keller, Dotter Institute, Oregon, USA, writes this tribute for Interventional News [read more]

Monday, 06 Jun 2011

Interventional radiologists such as Barry Katzen, Matthew S Johnson and Jim Benenati, join senior staff from Cook including John Brumleve, and Joe Roberts, to pay tribute to the well-respected entrepreneur, who died in April this year [read more]

Monday, 06 Jun 2011

Mahmood Razavi, director, Center for Clinical Trials and Research, Heart and Vascular Center, St Joseph Hospital, Orange, California, USA, writes that the limitations of catheter-directed thrombolysis led to the development of percutaneous mechanical thrombectomy devices as well as lytic-assisted devices [read more]