BACKGROUND Patients with lung cancer often have bulky endobronchial disease, endobronchial extension, or airway compression. Many endobronchial treatment modalities are available to supplement traditional therapies for advanced lung cancer. METHODS The author reviews the use of several endobronchial treatment modalities that can augment standard antitumor therapies for advanced lung cancer, i...

Key Points •Interventional oncology is a rapidly developing specialty in veterinary medicine that focuses on utilizing image-guided therapies in the minimally invasive treatment of neoplastic disease. •Several new therapies involving the locoregional delivery of chemotherapy and embolic agents, tumor ablation and stenting are being discovered in veterinary medicine and early results are promising.

BACKGROUND Pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA) is established for the treatment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). Recently, percutaneous transluminal pulmonary angioplasty (PTPA) has been added for peripheral-type CTEPH, whose lesions exist in segmental, subsegmental, and more distal pulmonary arteries. A shift in clinical practice of interventional therapies occurred in 2009...

Technologies and cancer therapies develop at a rapid pace, which makes staying current with changes diffi cult for nurses. Newer cancer modalities combine surgery or interventional radiology techniques to deliver regional chemotherapy, limiting systemic toxicities. Chemotherapy-certifi ed nurses must be available to assist with chemotherapy administration in nontraditional areas. This article p...

RECENT YEARS have seen the development of many new techniques and therapies that are useful or potentially useful in the management of patients with cardiovascular diseases. A number of these procedures performed by cardiologists have given rise to the term "interventional cardiology," referring to the more active, interventional role of the physician performing the procedure as compared with t...

Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a fatal orphan neurodegenerative disorder that manifests with rapidly progressive autonomic and motor dysfunction. The disease is characterized by the accumulation of α-synuclein fibrils in oligodendrocytes that form glial cytoplasmic inclusions, a neuropathological hallmark and central player in the pathogenesis of MSA. Here, we summarize the current knowledge ...