Decision Making in Interventional Oncology: Intra-arterial Therapies for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer—Y90 and Chemoembolization

Surgical and interventional therapies for pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Surgical and interventional therapies for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in appropriately selected patients have the potential to dramatically improve or, in some cases, cure PAH. These include atrial septostomy, a palliative procedure or bridge to transplantation in patients with refractory right heart failure, pulmonary thromboendarterectomy for pulmonary hypertension associated with c...

Interventional radiology in oncology: clinical management of patients undergoing transarterial chemoembolization for hepatic malignancies.

Interventional radiology procedures treat a variety of solid tumor malignancies. Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) is a minimally invasive procedure performed under fluoroscopic guidance that is used in treatment of hepatic malignancies because of hepatocellular carcinoma or malignancy that has metastasized to the liver. Patients undergoing a TACE procedure may manifest postembolization sy...

Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolization to Treat Primary or Metastatic Liver Malignancies

Arterial Therapies of Non-Colorectal Liver Metastases

BACKGROUND The unique situation of the liver with arterial and venous blood supply and the dependency of the tumor on the arterial blood flow make this organ an ideal target for intrahepatic catheter-based therapies. Main forms of treatment are classical bland embolization (TAE) cutting the blood flow to the tumors, chemoembolization (TACE) inducing high chemotherapy concentration in tumors, an...

Intra-arterial delivery of cell therapies for stroke.

Cell therapy is a novel investigational approach to enhance stroke recovery. Intra-arterial (IA) delivery has the potential advantage of selectively targeting cell therapies to the ischemic brain tissue. Over the past 10 years, IA cell delivery has been under investigation in patients with cardiac and peripheral vascular disease, and these studies have reported promising results. This article r...