Biliary interventions are commonplace in interventional radiology. Occasionally, an anastomotic occlusion is encountered that cannot be traversed with fluoroscopy alone. Endoscopy is a tool that should be added to the interventional radiology armamentarium. Unfortunately, most departments do not have endoscopes regularly available for use by nonendoscopists. The disposable single-use flexible L...

THE Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. During these 30 years, SIR has grown from a closed club with fewer than 100 members to an open society with 4,000 members. The history of the Society and its exciting growth is detailed on the SIR web site, www.sirweb.org. This issue of JVIR also contains commemorative articles of some founding members on t...

The Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation commissioned a Research Consensus Panel to establish research agenda on “Obesity Therapeutics” in interventional radiology (IR). meeting convened multidisciplinary group physicians and scientists with expertise obesity therapeutics. was intended review current evidence therapies, familiarize attendees the regulatory evaluation process, identify...

From the Department of Radiology (L.G.M.), Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia; Advanced Interventional Radiology Services (J.H.R.), Teaneck, New Jersey; Interventional Radiology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (M.J.W.), Houston, Texas; System Radiology (J.F.C.), Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pennsylvania; Department of Radiology (J.F.A.), University of Virgini...

Clinical Radiology is undoubtedly the speciality that has undergone a transformation in recent times. In the last twenty years the advent of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging in conjunction with advances in ultrasound technology has revolutionised the diagnosis of patients in modern healthcare systems. Radiology is now at the fulcrum of any hospital and is intrinsically embedde...