In an ideal world, patients would have unlimited access to all the treatments they might need. In re ality, however, healthcare decision makers face the difficult task of balancing need with availability. With limited resources, cost effectiveness is central to any decision. Lieven annemans, Professor of health Economics at Ghent university and...
READ MOREThe smallest patients need special care, and that is precisely what paediatric interventional radiologists provide. although a rare breed, there is great interest in this sub-specialty, with many children's hospitals offering a paediatric interventional radiology (IR) programme, or looking to begin one. IQ talks to Dr. anne-Marie Cahill, director...
READ MORECutting Balloon versus Non-cutting Balloon for the Treatment of Venous Stenosis in the Fistulas of Hemodialyzed Patients (PREST) Contact Dr. Eric Picard, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nîmes, FR Date Opened September 2011 Status Not yet recruiting Description The main objective of this study is to evaluate and compare the...
READ MOREEffects of Cerebral Protection with Filters vs. Flow Reversal on Cerebral Embolization after Carotid Artery Stenting Contact Dr. Carlos H. Timaran , Dallas VA Medical Center, US Date Opened October 2011 Status Recruiting Description This study was designed to investigate whether balloonbased protection systems are more effective...
READ MOREBalloon Catheters in Cases of Abnormal Placentation (Accreta) Contact Dr. Raed Salim, HaEmek Medical Center, IL Date opened January 2009 Status Recruiting Description The objective of this study is to estimate the efficacy of balloon catheter interventions among women diagnosed with a placenta accreta. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:...
READ MOREEfficacy and Safety of Radiofrequency Renal Denervation in Drug Resistant Hypertension Contact Dr. Stanislav Pekarskiy , Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, RU Date Opened March 2010 Status Recruiting Description Single-centre, single group study of the efficacy and safety of transcatheter renal denervation...
READ MOREDiffusion and Perfusion Weighted MRI for Response Prediction of Symptomatic Leiomyomas following Uuterine Artery Embolization Contact Prof. Geert Maleux, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, BE Date opened January 2012 Status Recruiting Description It is known that volumetric response of leiomyomas following uterine artery embolisation...
READ MOREMany Inventions Result from Eureka Moments, but Others Unfold Slowly Over Years of Dedicated Focus. The World’s First Optional Filter was One Such Invention. IQ Talks to its Inventor, Prof. Rolf Günther, About his Years of Dedication and Research. “When I started my training, interventional radiology (IR) barely existed. As I completed...
READ MOREÁgora - Lightweight EHR Viewer The EHR viewer (Ágora) in the Murcia Health Service displays real-time patient clinical information that is distributed across diverse and heterogeneous data sources in less than three seconds. Acting as mediator between its various information systems, Ágora simulates data centralisation without large-scale data storage....
READ MOREAs the cost of sequencing the human genome falls, medical use of whole-genome sequencing in the clinic is rapidly approaching academic medical centres. In order to support the foreseeable flood of genomic information in the clinic an Oracle based database and business intelligence solution to detect genomic variants has been built at Erasmus university...
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