Venous access in paediatric patients can be demanding. With children ranging from less than 600g to over 100kg across a wide spectrum of specialities, often a cannula is insufficient for the battery of investigations and medications that the child will need. As a result, some form of longer-term intravenous access is required to enable the […]
Anne Ho, Alice Jenkins, Premal Patel
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Endovenous laser ablation (EVLA) for the treatment of venous insufficiency and varicose veins is almost certainly the most common interventional radiological treatment performed in the UK. It is therefore, at first sight, puzzling that most of these procedures are carried out not by interventional radiologists, but by vascular surgeons. This article discusses the current situation, […]
Dr David West
Veincentre Limited
A patient presenting with possible deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is one of the most common scenarios that clinicians face on a daily basis. Incidence is estimated to be approximately 1 in 1,000. Due to the potentially fatal consequences of not appropriately diagnosing and treating DVT – specifically pulmonary embolism – the importance of prompt and […]
Dr Neelan Das, Dr R Kaikini, Dr N Wojtasjek, Dr Charlene Barter
Kent and Canterbury Hospital
Time-resolved angiography with interleaved stochastic trajectories (TWIST) is a magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) technique which creates a series of rapid multiplanar data sets with good spatial resolution. Rapid successive measurements enabled by temporal acceleration reduce the reliance on precision of bolus timing to ensure maximum intravenous contrast within the vascular system. This imaging technique generates […]
Dr Lynne Armstrong, Christopher B Lawton, Dr Nathan Manghat
Bristol Heart Institute, Bristol Royal Infirmary