Archive for the ‘Interventional’ Category

High rate of serious complications with stent-assisted coiling in unruptured intracranial aneurysms: lessons to learn

Posted on December 29th, 2009 by Willem Jan van Rooij, St. Elisabeth Tilburg | 393 views

Re: Piotin M, Blanc R, Spelle L, Mounayer C, Piantino R, Schmidt PJ, Moret J. Stent-Assisted Coiling of Intracranial Aneurysms. Clinical and Angiographic Results in 216 Consecutive Aneurysms. Stroke 2010;41:110-15; published online before print December [...]

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CT-Guided Cervical Nerve Root Blocks

Posted on October 12th, 2009 by Jenny Hoang, Duke University Medical Center | 451 views

I have three questions for radiologists who perform spinal injections for pain management.
1. How many people regularly do cervical nerve root blocks?
2. Are you using CT or conventional fluoro?
3. If you are using CT, do [...]

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About : Long-Term Follow-Up of 1036 Cerebral Aneurysms Treated by Bare Coils: A Multicentric Cohort Treated between 1998 and 2003

Posted on September 22nd, 2009 by Pedro Lylyk, ENERI Comprehensive Stroke Center | 410 views

This article references:
Gallas S, Januel AC, Pasco A, et al. Long-Temr Follow-Up of 1036 Cerebral Aneurysms Treated by Bare Colis: A Multicentric Cohort Treated between 1998 and 2003. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol first published on [...]

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Does the insurance company require the certification of neurointerventionist for payment of the interventional procedure?

Posted on September 21st, 2009 by Chang-Woo Ryu, East-West Neo Medical Center | 748 views

Does the insurance company require the certification of neurointerventionist for payment of the interventional procedure?
I’m an interventional neuroradiologist in South Korea. Korea’s health insurance service inquired of the Korean Society of Interventional Neuroradiology what is [...]

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Mass in septum pellucidum

Posted on June 17th, 2009 by merita bania, tbh | 716 views

Does anyone know what this mass could be? It was biopsied 2 years ago and pathology reported it as  “normal brain tissue”.
As you can see, the lesion is hyperintense on T2, hypointense on T1 and [...]

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Pediatric contraindication for Onyx?

Posted on May 26th, 2009 by Harry Cloft, Mayo Clinic | 387 views

Package inserts for the Echelon, Marathon, and UltraFlow microcatheters from EV3 note that these devices are specifically “contraindicated for neonatal and pediatric use”. Since these microcatheters are needed to inject Onyx, these contraindications indicate that [...]

AngioCalc.com

Posted on May 5th, 2009 by Mike Hanley, MUSC | 742 views

www.AngioCalc.com
Cerebral Aneurysm Calculator
This recently revised website is dedicated to providing quality resources for the management of cerebral aneurysms and features an online calculator for calculating cerebral aneurysm volume and percent packing volume after coil embolization. [...]

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A Second-Generation, Endoluminal, Flow-Disrupting Device for Treatment of Saccular Aneurysms

Posted on April 30th, 2009 by Satoshi Tateshima, UCLA Medical Center | 1,263 views

Satoshi Tateshima, MD, D.M.Sc., Assistant Professor-Director of the Aneurysm Program, Division of Interventional Neuroradiology, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

Gary Duckwiler, MD, Director of Clinical Affairs and Fellowship Director, Division of Interventional Neuroradiology, Ronald Reagan UCLA [...]

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Are C1–2 Punctures for Routine Cervical Myelography below the Standard of Care?

Posted on April 28th, 2009 by Steven Falcone, University of Miami | 1,539 views

Comment on: D.M. Yousem and S.K. Gujar Are C1–2 Punctures for Routine Cervical Myelography below the Standard of Care? AJNR Am J Neuroradiol first published on April 15, 2009 as doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A1594
In an original research [...]

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Willinsky RA et al, Clinical and endovascular follow-up of embolized aneurysms.

Posted on March 28th, 2009 by Dheeraj Gandhi, Johns Hopkins | 597 views

A recent article published by Dr Robert Willinsky and colleagues from Toronto is noteworthy and an excellent addition to the literature on the subject of endovascular treatment of ruptured aneurysms. This is one of the [...]

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