The Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) is a non-profit, educational and scientific association representing physicians and scientists who are interested and strongly involved in Interventional Radiology and cardiovascular imaging techniques.  The CIRSE annual meeting takes place in Munich and the congress offers attendees key scientific content in seven of the most important areas in interventional radiology: Imaging Vascular Interventions Transcatheter Embolisation Interventional Oncology Neuro Interventions Non-Vascular Interventions IR Management

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Video: Interview: advances in ablation of renal tumors

How ablation techniques are challenging surgery in terms of successful long-term outcomes in the treatment of renal tumors.

Catheter-directed thrombolysis in DVT

A specialist discusses the application of interventional radiology in the treatment of deep vein thrombosis (DVT).

Exploring embolization for adenomyosis

Is the efficacy of embolization in adenomyosis similar to that achieved in uterine fibroids? A specialist discusses new and published data.

Minimally invasive ablation called new standard for small renal cancer

Relative to nephron-sparing surgery for small renal tumours, either by open or laparoscopic technique, radiofrequency ablation (RFA) or cryoablation requires less recovery time, is less expensive to perform, and may reduce the risk of complications. However, it is not yet clear that long-term outcome is as good with ablation. This was the focus of a debate between a surgeon and an interventional radiologist. In a debate, a surgeon maintained that resection remains the first-line therapy for small renal cancers, but an interventional radiologist suggested that ablation is now a better alternative. 

Image-guided ablation is gaining on surgery for resectable liver tumours

Image-guided ablation has many advantages over surgical resection in the treatment of liver malignancies, whether the tumours are primary or metastatic. Minimally invasive ablation techniques, which include energy delivered by radiofrequency or microwave or destruction of tissue by freezing, typically allow fast recovery and a relatively low risk of complications. A debate about whether ablation will eventually replace surgery in the treatment of liver tumours failed to materialize when both sides agreed that both options are important.

Video: Evolution of the Günther tulip filter unfolds over 20-year period
In this 3-minute video interview conducted at the 2011 meeting of CIRSE, Dr Rolf Günther, Chairman, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Aachen University of Technology, Aachen, Germany explains how the widely used tulip filter for preventing migration of emboli was developed for percutaneous insertion and retrieval.

Video: Indications for TACE, including diffuse lesions, are expanding rapidly
In this 4-minute video interview conducted at the 2011 meeting of CIRSE, Dr Hicham Kobeiter, Professor of Medicine, Henri Mondor University Hospital, Paris XII University, Créteil, France, reports that transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) is being employed in an increasingly broad range of applications. He credits better imaging that has improved the targeting of TACE.

Catheter-directed thrombolysis is effective in DVT that has failed anticoagulation
A specialist discusses the application of interventional radiology in the treatment of deep vein thrombosis (DVT). In a special session at CIRSE on the role of interventional radiology in venous disease, Dr Kenneth Thomson, an interventional radiologist at the Alfred Hospital, in Melbourne, Australia, discussed the use of interventional radiology techniques in the treatment of deep vein thrombosis (DVT).

Embolization of adenomyosis reviewed
It is unclear whether the efficacy of embolization in adenomyosis is similar to that achieved in uterine fibroids or even how efficacy should be defined.

Dr Jean-Pierre Pelage of the Department of Body and Vascular Imaging at the Hôpital Lariboisière, in Paris, France, discussed clinical findings relating to the embolization of adenomyosis, in a special session at the CIRSE annual meeting.

Video: Microwave ablation moves forward in treatment of lung tumours
In this 2-minute video interview conducted at the 2011 meeting of CIRSE, Dr Gianparlo Carrafiello, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy, recounts his experience with microwave ablation for treatment of lung cancer. He believes microwave ablation will prove to have many advantages over radiofrequency (RF) ablation.

Video: Flexibility may not be enough for stents employed in leg veins
In this 3-minute video interview conducted at the 2011 meeting of CIRSE, Dr Stefan Müller-Hülsbeck, Chairman, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Academic Hospitals Flensburg, Flensburg, Germany, discusses the need to validate the design features of stents used in the lower limbs.

Video: Dual phase cone beam CT labeled an advance for guiding liver cancer therapy
In this 4-minute video interview conducted at the 2011 meeting of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE), Dr Jeff Geschwind, Director of Interventional Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, reports that dual phase cone beam CT is likely to revolutionize the treatment of liver tumours by allowing success to be determined immediately at the end of the procedure.

Video: New technology has rapidly pushed interventional radiology into oncologic therapy
In this 4-minute video interview conducted at the 2011 meeting of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE), Dr Warner Prevoo an interventional radiologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Ziekenhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands predicts an increase in the proportion of cancer procedures performed by radiologists because of relatively low morbidity.

Video: 3D MRI and HIFU device is considered major step forward in ablation therapy
In this two-and-a-half-minute video interview conducted at the 2011 meeting of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE), Dr Maurice van den Bosch, Professor of Radiology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, Netherlands explains why a new system that combines three-dimensional (3D) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) will greatly improve ablation procedures.

Video: Oncologic indications are dominating many interventional radiology practices
In this 3-minute video interview conducted at the 2011 meeting of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE), Dr Afshin Gangi, Chairman of the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, chronicles the dramatic rise in the proportion of time that oncological procedures are now consuming in the practice of interventional radiology.

Video: Will the benefit of renal stenting be verified: two experts disagree on the prospects
In this 6-minute video dialogue conducted at the 2011 meeting of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE), Dr Jon G. Moss professor, Department of Radiology, North Glasgow University Hospitals, Glasgow, UK and Dr Marc R. Sapoval, Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular Radiology, Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou, Paris, France, discuss the merits of renal stenting. At CIRCE, they were opponents in a debate about whether renal artery stenting can be considered “dead” in the absence of data from a series of negative randomized trials.

Video: How cryoablation and segmentation tools are improving cancer treatment
In this 2-minute video interview conducted at the 2011 meeting of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE), Dr Marco van Strijen, an interventional radiologist at St. Antonius Ziekenhuis, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, discusses new data on how cryoablation and segmentation tools are helping to improve cancer treatment.

High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) shows promise for prostate cancer
In a series of patients treated in Singapore, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guided HIFU was found to be a safe alternative to active surveillance in low risk prostate cancer.

CT and MR urography provide information additional to ultrasound in urinary tract
Many of the limitations of ultrasound (US) for imaging the urinary tract appear to be addressed with computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance (MR) urography.

Video: Challenges of interventional radiology similar in Europe vs. United States
In this 5-minute video conversation captured at the 2011 meeting of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE), Dr Dierk Vorwerk of the Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology in Ingolstadt, Germany, and Dr James F. Benenati of the Baptist Cardiac and Vascular Institute in Miami, USA, discuss the challenges facing interventional radiologists in Europe and the United States. The challenges appear to be more similar than different.

Video: Dual imaging strategy reduces need for biopsies of suspicious hepatic nodules
In this 3-minute video interview conducted at the 2011 meeting of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE), Dr Denis A. Brisbois, a Belgian radiologist affiliated with Erasme University in Brussels and Les Clinques St. Joseph Liege explained that fewer biopsies are now being performed of suspicious hepatic nodules as a result of better imaging.

Cone beam CT appears to offer advantages in chemoembolization
Cone beam computed tomography (CT) appears to have unique advantages for monitoring the administration of transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), according to an overview assessment.