Background: Few prospective studies have evaluated the role of endobronchial needle aspiration in diagnosing central airways neoplasms. Rapid on-site evaluation has long been used in transbronchial needle aspiration of adenopathies and peripheral lesions, but its role in sampling central malignancies has not been substantiated yet. Objectives: In this study we evaluated if endobronchial needle ...

There is a large movement within the field of interventional radiology (IR) and various related organizations (including the Society of Interventional Radiology and the Canadian Interventional Radiology Association) for interventional radiologists to become more clinical. This is seen as the necessary next step for the specialty as it continues to evolve and grow. Here, we take a novel approach...

R The rapid advancement and innovation of image-guided techniques, devices, procedures, and treatments has led to difficulty for individual interventional radiologists and interventionalists to keep pace with new developments. In part for this reason, numerous short industry-sponsored and weekend (1–2 d) training courses have been developed. These courses may last for a portion of a day or seve...

Interventional radiologists are physicians who specialize in minimally invasive targeted therapies, offering the most in-depth knowledge of the less invasive therapies that are available and diagnostic and clinical experience across all specialties. Interventional radiologists offer treatments for hepatobiliary diseases without significant side effects or damage to the adjacent normal tissue. W...

Interventional cardiology procedures result in substantial patient radiation doses due to prolonged fluoroscopy time and radiographic exposure. The procedures that are most frequently performed are coronary angiography, percutaneous coronary interventions, diagnostic electrophysiology studies and radiofrequency catheter ablation. Patient radiation dose in these procedures can be assessed either...

OBJECTIVE Through an interventional study in the metabolic syndrome, evaluate the feasibility of the standard nutritional intervention. DESIGN Select metabolic syndrome patients from people who received a health check in our hospital and randomly allocate them into four groups. The standard interventional group received both the nutritional intervention and health education; the simple interv...

Percutaneous cardiac interventions were introduced in the 1960s, and, with the introduction of percutaneous coronary interventions by Gruentzig in 1978, the field has had an astounding growth. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the most commonly preformed revascularization technique in the United States today with an estimated 492 000 procedures done in 2010 (Figure 1). This exceeds th...