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January 16, 2025

Siemens Cios Spin: revolutionising intraoperative imaging

Over the decades there has been significant progress, in intraoperative imaging, driven by the pursuit of greater accuracy, improved patient outcomes and enhanced surgical efficiency. The Siemens Cios Spin, is an advanced intraoperative mobile C-arm, has remarkably improved surgical accuracy with its high-resolution three-dimensional (3D) imaging capabilities. This advanced technology plays a role, in numerous […]

Nonso Ifeka, Zainab Bello, Kapil Shirodkar, Rajesh Botchu

Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham

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March 13, 2024

When to ablate renal tumours?

Renal cancer is the seventh most common cancer in the UK. The majority of these are picked up incidentally when patients have scans for other symptoms. By the time patients have typical symptoms of renal cancer, such as abdominal pain or haematuria, the tumour may be quite advanced.

Dr Salil Karkhanis

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham

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March 13, 2024

Management of upper GI bleed

One of the most common medical emergencies in the UK is acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB), with approximately one presentation reported every six minutes. Overall incidence of UGIB in the UK ranges from 84-172 per 100,000 of the population per year. Despite the advancement in medical therapies, the overall hospital mortality rate is still high […]

Dr Peng Kwan Ng, Dr Elizabeth O'Grady

Aintree University Hospital

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June 14, 2023

The role of interventional radiology in the acute phase

If you are reading this article, then you are probably old enough to remember when the internet wasn’t as widely available. Remember plugging in the cable that allowed you to use the internet via the phone socket? Remember the weird dial tone when you were being connected? In reality, we are only talking about 20 […]

Dr Mohammed Rashid Akhtar

St Bart's and the Royal London Hospitals

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November 16, 2022

Choosing the right calcium strategy

Vascular calcification (VC) is defined as mineral deposition in the vasculature in the form of calcium-phosphate complexes. Although VC is regarded as part of the normal ageing process, certain pathological processes such as diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease (CKD) or rare hereditary disorders may also precipitate the condition. Traditionally, calcification is classified into two forms, […]

Dr Symeon Lechareas

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

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March 16, 2022

Image guidance for soft tissue tumour biopsy in children

Historically, paediatric tumour biopsies were undertaken using an open surgical technique, but this is invasive and confers morbidity. Now, given the advances in paediatric interventional radiology (IR) techniques, there is a growing preference for tumour biopsies in children to be performed using a percutaneous image-guided technique as this has been shown to be accurate and […]

Rebecca Craig, Premal Patel, Kishore Minhas

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children

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March 16, 2022

The life of a CT interventional radiographer

The number of CT interventional procedures has increased over the years due to its availability, superior visualisation and ease of use. Interventional procedures in CT use an array of complex instruments, and advancing medical technology is used to support consultant radiologists during interventional studies. This leaves little to no room for error. To manage and […]

Zainab Bello, Tatenda Lumeyu

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital

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November 17, 2021

Management of solid organ trauma

In the last two decades, management of blunt and penetrating solid organ trauma has seen a major transition from operative management (OM) or damage control surgery (DCS) to non-operative management (NOM), guided principally by the haemodynamic stability of the patient. This shift is predominantly due to better knowledge of the natural history of solid organ […]