gastrointestinal

It’s Interventional will showcase a portfolio of interventional products designed to support clinical decision making, streamline procedures and improve patient care at BSIR. Among the products on display will be the Ella-CS gastrointestinal stent range, which features design options intended to help clinicians select the most appropriate device for individual patients while supporting future treatment […]

In 2004, survival after oesophageal stent placement in the UK was around three months. Advances in oncological and palliative therapies have since extended survival two-to-three-fold, with five-year survival for oesophageal cancer in England approaching 20% in 2023. As a result, stents remain in situ for longer, and failure occurs more often. In this changing landscape, […]

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, has installed a Philips Azurion 7 ceiling-mounted M20 interventional radiology (IR) system, following funding from The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity and the legacy of Dame Deborah James. Dame Deborah, known on social media as ‘Bowelbabe,’ was treated at The Royal Marsden for incurable bowel cancer and IR played […]

Gastrointestinal (GI) radiology presents some of the most demanding cases in medical imaging, characterised by highly variable anatomy, multiple imaging modalities and overlapping clinical systems. From Crohn’s disease to liver lesions, no two cases are the same, says medical documentation software developer Smart Reporting. The company’s reporting platform is designed to address this complexity by […]

Patients undergoing bowel cancer treatment at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will be invited to try out personalised ‘vaccines’ as part of a groundbreaking NHS ‘matchmaking’ service. The Cancer Vaccine Launch Pad aims to recruit thousands of patients across England into various trials of a new type of immunotherapy treatment, known colloquially as cancer vaccines. The […]

The launch of a liver ultrasound screening service at private healthcare provider Benenden Hospital in Kent is said to be the first of its kind in south-east England. It aims to help patients avoid NHS waiting lists and attend fewer appointments, while affording clinicians improved diagnostic confidence. Enabled by Acuson Sequoia Crown ultrasound systems from […]

A Stoke-on-Trent couple are urging people to take up the offer of cancer screening services provided by University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) after they were diagnosed with cancer within four months of each other. Former UHNM healthcare assistant Kath Dean and her husband Michael, a former West Midlands Ambulance Service driver, were […]

Offering an exceptional, easy-to-use and complete solution for liver disease assessment, treatment planning and monitoring, the Philips ultimate liver solution for liver assessment is available across a wide range of PureWave transducers to accommodate different body habitus.  The quantifiable outcomes from the latest addition: liver fat quantification and shear wave elastography allow radiologists and hepatologists […]