Prostatic artery embolization is the most cost-effective minimally invasive therapy for patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia. UCSF IR UCSF Imaging Xiao Wu Michael Heller bit.ly/41iXXeB

.Jessie Stewart of UCLA Radiology has been awarded the JVIR 2023 Editor's Certificate for Distinguished Laboratory Investigation for "Use of n-Butyl-2-Cyanoacrylate for Fallopian Tube Embolization via Selective Catheterization" at #SIR24SLC. Congrats, Dr. Stewart!

Live #SIR24SLC rock star panel on randomized trials for Acute PE Society of Interventional Radiology SIR RFS SIR ECS

We're excited to share UCLA Radiology's Dr. Justin McWilliams (Justin McWilliams) was awarded the JVIR 2023 Editor's Certificate for Distinguished Laboratory Investigation for "Design of a High-Flow Catheter Connector to Enhance Fluid Transfer." Congrats, Dr. McWilliams! #SIR24SLC

Awesome talk on the complexities in performing radiomics on abdominal MRI on patients with metastatic uveal melanoma #MUM by MD/PhD student Gabriel Casella at #SIR24SLC. Work was done via a strong collaboration between Jefferson Interventional Radiology, UChicago Medicine and the Giger lab. Robert Ford, MD

Congratulations to UCLA Radiology's Dr. John Moriarty (John Moriarty) who's been awarded the JVIR 2023 Editor's Recognition for Peer's Choice Article for 2021 for "Endovascular Removal of Thrombus and Right Heart Masses Using the AngioVac System" at #SIR24SLC! 👏

.Edward Wolfgang Lee updates on AASLD guidelines in relating to #TIPS #GEST2024

What happened here⁉️ Which thrombectomy device was used? What complication of said device do you identify? What do you see 👀? #VenousEd #Thrombectomy frank arko Stephen Black Kumar Madassery

Review Article by Carin Gonsalves, MD, FSIR: This article discusses #immunoembolization for the treatment of #metastatic uveal melanoma including the rationale, mechanism of action, and more 🔗thieme-connect.com/products/ejour… #uvealmelanoma #uvea #eyecancer #irad #radtwitter #radiology #MedTwitter

🌟 May 2024 Paper of the Month! 🌟 ​ Congrats to John Moriarty and team for their study on Computer Assisted Vacuum Thrombectomy for Pulmonary Embolism! ​ Key findings: • 25.7% reduction in RV/LV ratio • Low major adverse event rate (2.7%) • Significant improvements in QoL

Important anatomic variant to look for in your Y90 mapping and good IR board question ! Reason why CBCT is essential during mapping !! Supraduodenal artery arising from right hepatic artery in lobar Y90 case ⁦Society of Interventional Radiology⁩ ⁦SIR RFS⁩

Why do people order Upper GI studies with small bowel follow through? I’m pretty confident that >99% of people ordering a small bowel follow through don’t know what it is, what it’s for, how insanely limited it is, and also how incredibly antiquated it is.

When I was accepted to med school in 2008 I told my mom, a life long tennis fan, that I would take her to Wimbledon one day. Last year, she was diagnosed with a high grade liposarcoma, which raised the Wimbledon urgency a bit. Radiation, multiple surgeries, and my own cardiac

June may be over, but it’s never too late to celebrate #MensHealthMonth! Check out this great infographic created by KY, Pierce Herrmann, and Dr. Rehan Riaz on Prostatic Artery Embolization! #SIR #MSCReserves Society of Interventional Radiology

To bring you up to speed today #MedTwitter, hospitals and ASCs get a 3% raise, we get a 3% cut and @uhc committed 8.7B dollars worth of Medicare fraud in 2021 alone. But yes tell us how it’s all the doctors fault. #notaprovider Criminal Division Dana Corriel, MD PPP - Putting Patients First

Proposed Conversion Factor of $32.26. in 2025. It was $36.69 in 1998. So even w/o inflation adjustment, doctors in 1998 made more from Medicare than doctors in 2025. Adjusted for inflation, it should be $71.33 ($32.26 in 1998 would be $17.05) #MedTwitter

It's fibroid awareness month: did you know the majority of women will have uterine fibroids by age 50? Know your options, including non-surgical #UAE with #IRad for symptomatic fibroids #fibroidfix

STRIKE-PE trial data drop: Impressive improvements in QOL post PE-intervention. Thx patients and investigators on 3 continents, more to come soon! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…. JVIR Society of Interventional Radiology PERT Consortium UCLA IR UCLA Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program UCLA Health

US Healthcare. Hospitals get $10 for service A. 50 private practices receive $1 for the same service. Hospital uses the $9 arbitrage to buy 40 of the 50 private practices. This is consolidation. Dear America: Hospitals use the overpayments from your Medicare funded