Neurointerventional radiology is a specialized field of medicine that treats conditions that affect the blood vessels in the brain and spinal cord, including: place a catheter (long thin tube) through ...

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CHICAGO - Researchers reported today on a procedure that can preserve fertility and potentially save the lives of women with a serious pregnancy complication called placenta accreta. Results of the ...

» Who decides which medical procedure is appropriate and whether it is justified? The process of justification allows determining whether the medical exposure will take place or not. The goal of ...

Universitätsmedizin Berlin have successfully tested a new technology for use in the assessment of overweight adolescents with liver disease. Known as 'time-harmonic elastography' (THE), the technology ...

Do not drink alcoholic beverages and do not smoke for two days prior and two days after your procedure, since this may impair the healing process. Do not eat any food six to eight hours prior to your ...

Hospitals are on the watch these days for medical errors. One area that has been neglected are radiology departments. The authors of a study by U.S. Pharmacopeia, being released Wednesday, were ...

Interventional radiography procedures have been used more and more over the last 40 years. Along with the rise in the number of procedures, incidents of radiation-induced skin injuries have increased.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Following interventional radiology procedures such as coronary angioplasty, patients were more likely to be discharged home, rather than to a nursing or long-term care facility, when ...

Feeling high levels of distress, fear and hostility prior to undergoing an angioplasty or other interventional radiology procedure may lead to a poor outcome, according to new research. Feeling high ...

DoneHyderabad: Indian Radiological and Imaging Association (IRIA), Telangana, issued a clarification highlighting the importance of interventional radiology (IR) and the vital role of interventional ...

A procedure can preserve fertility and potentially save the lives of women with a serious pregnancy complication called placenta accreta. Results of the new study showed that placement of balloons in ...