Keywords: Interventional Radiology
08/30/2010
Aortic valve replacement in the third dimension
No white lab coats anywhere; instead men in hard hats, equipped with hammers and drills. The Düsseldorf University Hospital’s Cardiology Pneumology and Angiology Clinic is a …
08/30/2010
Arteries seen in a new light
New imaging technologies are opening a new chapter in interventional cardiology by offering something this widely practiced procedure has been missing -- vivid clinical evidence …
07/08/2010
EuroPCR highlights rapid advances in MIS on a beating heart
The landmark achievements in interventional cardiology that are rapidly advancing minimally invasive surgeries (MIS) on a beating heart were demonstrated during a Paris course on …
07/07/2010
CT and US co-registration
Dr Alice Gillams, who heads the image guided tumour ablation programme at University College London Hospitals (UCLH), reported at this year’s ECR that Hitachi’s Real-time …
02/04/2010
3-D views in the cath lab
New technology that allows doctors to see three-dimensional images of heart arteries in the catheterization lab passed its first major testing hurdle - moving doctors closer to …
01/27/2010
New concepts in stroke therapy
Like a bolt from the blue ischemic stroke strikes a patient unpredictably. The consequences are devastating: stroke is the number one cause of serious disabilities in adulthood - …
11/12/2009
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Cases of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), one of the most frequently occurring cancers throughout the world, are expected to increase dramatically in the next 10-15 years in …
10/28/2008
itm Rhenium-PTA/PTCA®
An effective, safe treatment for prophylaxis of restenosis in periphery and cardiology new generation of Endovascular Brachytherapy gains full CE-certification. Constricted …
11/16/2007
POCI: an intra-operative imaging probe for sentinel node localisation
Growing interest in sentinel lymph node (SLN) detection has led to its use in many clinical centres. The most successful protocols for localisation of SLNs are those that include …
10/30/2007
Hippocrates meets Medusa's head
By Dr J Larsen MD FRCR, Consultant Radiologist at Braunschweig Hospital, Germany …
11/17/2006
90th RSNA Scientific Assembly
As information and communications technology (ICT) makes it way into the everyday practice of medicine, the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) is integrating ICT with …
08/03/2006
40th anniversary
As the German Society of Neuroradiology 40th annual meeting approached (Venue: Dresden. 31 August - 3 September), Professors Martin Schumacher (Freiburg), President of the German …