Tushar J. Vachharajani,* Shahriar Moossavi,* Loay Salman, Steven Wu, Ivan D. Maya, Alex S. Yevzlin, Anil Agarwal, Kenneth D. Abreo,** Jack Work, and Arif Asif *Dialysis Access Group of Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Interventional Nephrology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; Interventional ...

Interventional therapy is characterized by mini-invasion, accuracy, obvious curative effect and little side effect. In China, interventional therapy has been applied widely in the treatment of malignant carcinoma in recent 10 years. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) also has been adopted in the interventional therapy in recent years. This article reviews the history, status quo and prospect in...

Phulchand Prithvi Raj Borundia (September 13, 1931 to February 27, 2016), fondly known as “Raj,” was a pioneer and world leader in regional anesthesia and interventional pain management (Fig. 1). Regional anesthesia and interventional pain management will forever be linked with the name of Dr. Raj. His death creates a major void in interventional pain management across the globe (1,2). He is th...

introduction: pain is the most common complaint of patients referring to emergency department (ed). considering the importance of pain management in ed, this study aimed to investigate the efficacy and feasibility of ultrasound-guided nerve blocks in this setting. methods: 46 patients who came to the ed with injured extremities were enrolled in the study and received either femoral, axillary or...

the imaging of hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) is challenging and plays a crucial role in the diagnosis and staging of the disease. a variety of imaging modalities, such as ultrasound, computed tomography (ct), magnetic resonance imaging (mri) and nuclear medicine are currently used in evaluating patients with hcc. although the best option for the treatment of these cases is hepatic resection or...

There is a need for interventional pain management in the developing world; however, there are many barriers to the introduction of interventional pain therapies. This brief report describes one approach to the introduction of interventional pain medicine to a Nigerian teaching hospital. Although many barriers exist, interventional pain medicine can be brought to the developing world, as demons...

A low-cost image processing system and two real-time digital image processing algorithms using parallel processing have been developed to provide automatic equalization of moving images at video frequencies. The algorithms differ in the processing time required and the characteristics of the final image. The system takes an entire image from the video sequence, digitizes it, automatically calcu...

Background and Objectives: Discharge against medical advice (DAMA) is a significant healthcare problem posing negative impact on effectiveness of patient care and costs of the health system. In order to address this problem, first the potential influencing factor should be identifies. This study followed two major objectives: first, to evaluate the prevalence and potential causes of DAMA, and s...

Interventional neuroradiology continues to play an increasing role in the treatment of intracranial aneurysms, the treatment of vasospasm related to subarachnoid hemorrhage, and the treatment of vascular malformations and fistulae of the brain and spine. New techniques for aneurysm embolization are examined, such as detachable coil systems, as are reports of intracranial angioplasty and superse...