1. Highlights of IR Studies at SIR 2010
(Radiology Conferences/SIR 2010)

... Women’s Health: Uterine Fibroids and Pregnancy, New Treatment Avoiding Hysterectomy, Surgery: What Minimally Invasive Treatments Are Available? Stroke Treatment Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) Showing ...

2. SIR Debuts Online Learning Center: SIR 2010
(Radiology Conferences/SIR 2010)

SIR introduces new online learning center at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 35th Annual Scientific Meeting ( SIR 2010 ) March 13 – 18, 2010 in Tampa, Fla. The Society of Interventional Radiology ...

3. SIR Hosts 35th Annual Scientific Meeting
(Radiology Conferences/SIR 2010)

Latest advances in minimally invasive medicine featured at the Society of Interventional Radiology's  35th Annual Scientific Meeting ( SIR 2010 ) on March 13–18 in Tampa, Fla. The Society of Interventional ...

4. SIR Highlights Medical Advances & New Discoveries
(Organizations/Society of Interventional Radiology)

... scores; and stem cell therapy and stenting advances for peripheral arterial disease. Plenary sessions include On March 14, Matthew S. Johnson, M.D., FSIR, professor of radiology and surgery, Indiana ...

5. New Editor Named For Prestigious JVIR
(Organizations/Society of Interventional Radiology)

... of 90 journals in radiology, nuclear medicine and medical imaging and in the top half of 56 journals in peripheral arterial disease, according to results from the Thomson Reuters Institute for ...

6. MEDRAD - B. Braun: Co-marketing & Trademark License Agreement
(Company News/MEDRAD)

... The Paccocath technology has been shown in multiple clinical trials to keep the artery open wider (reduce late lumen loss) over time in patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease and Coronary Artery Disease ...

7. AMAG: JP Morgan Healthcare Conference
(Radiology Conferences/Conference News)

AMAG Pharmaceuticals to present at JP Morgan 28th Annual Healthcare Conference on 11th January, 2010 by providing a company update and discuss the company’s commercial launch of Feraheme. AMAG Pharmaceuticals, ...

8. Asymptomatic IHD Accompany Narrowing in Leg Arteries: RSNA
(Radiology Conferences/RSNA 2009)

... in arteries that supply blood to the legs and other parts of the body also have significant but silent coronary artery disease. Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) occurs when plaque, a combination of ...

9. VIVA 2009 Late-Breaking Trials
(Radiology Conferences/VIVA 2009)

VIVA 2009 Late-Breaking Trials Highlight Advances in Interventional Treatments of Peripheral Arterial Disease The latest data from seven studies focused on the treatment of peripheral arterial disease ...

10. Imaging Modalities for Heart Disease in Diabetics
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

... mellitus and normal electrocardiographic findings, no peripheral arterial disease, and normal findings on SPECT have evidence of occult coronary artery disease on CCTA. Furthermore, a small percentage ...

11. State-of-the-Art Imaging and Interventional Radiology: Research and Markets
(Modalities/Radiology )

... new vascular and non-vascular therapeutic interventionsincluding peripheral arterial disease, deep venous thrombosis, stroke therapy,and vascular malformations  Describe modern techniques in the ...

12. TCT 2009
(Radiology Conferences/TCT 2009)

... and therapeutics to patients with carotid and peripheral arterial disease • Integrate appropriate pharmacologic management in the care of patients undergoing diagnostic arteriography and interventional ...

13. Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. Acquires U.S., Canadian and Australian Rights To MS-325 from EPIX Pharmaceuticals
(Company News/Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc)

... throughout their legs, causing pain, sores or gangrene, which can result in the loss of a limb. Peripheral vascular disease (PVD), also known as peripheral arterial disease1, refers to diseases of blood ...

14. Seaweed And Fireflies Brew May Guide Stem Cell Treatment For Peripheral Artery Disease
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

An unlikely brew of seaweed and glow-in-the-dark biochemical agentssafe use of transplanted stem cells to treat patients with severe peripheral arterial disease (PAD) An unlikely ...

15. Interventional Radiology Makes Childbirth Safer
(Communities/Abdominal Pelvic)

... at the source of the disease internally. As the inventors of angioplasty and the catheter-delivered stent, which were first used in the legs to treat peripheral arterial disease, interventional radiologists ...

16. Simple Test Helps Predict Heart Attack Risk
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

... the prevalence of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in a large population of women and men who were not considered at high risk for cardiovascular disease. And the results are surprising: novel risk factors ...

17. Less Invasive Interventional Treatment for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
(Communities/Abdominal Pelvic)

... peripheral arterial disease, interventional radiologists pioneered minimally invasive modern medicine. Today many conditions that once required surgery can be treated less invasively by interventional ...

18. Metastatic Bone Disease Patients Can Walk in Lazarus' Footsteps
(Communities/Musculoskeletal )

... stent, which were first used in the legs to treat peripheral arterial disease, interventional radiologists pioneered minimally invasive modern medicine. Today, interventional oncology is a growing specialty ...

19. Freezing Prostate Cancer Does a Man's Body Good
(Communities/Abdominal Pelvic)

... at the source of the disease internally. As the inventors of angioplasty and the catheter-delivered stent, which were first used in the legs to treat peripheral arterial disease, interventional radiologists ...

20. SIR Showcases Latest Advances in Minimally Invasive Medicine
(Organizations/Society of Interventional Radiology)

... with kidney, prostate and bone cancer; herniated disks; peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and related complications; childbirth difficulties; and more at its 34thAnnual Scientific Meeting March 7-12 at ...