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This recording features audio versions of Month Year Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts:

• Optimal Timing of Percutaneous Cholecystostomy across Different Grades of Acute Cholecystitis: A Retrospective Cohort Study Read
• Gallbladder Cryoablation for Calculous Cholecystitis Initially Treated with Percutaneous Drainage: A Prospective Trial in High-Risk Patients Read
• Comparative Prognostic Ut...

"The best quote that I still say (and I say it to my son all the time) is as Ernie says, 'Not every day can be the best day of your life.' And it's so true. So, if you're having a bad day, Ernie Ring said ... it's okay." —Maureen P. Kohi, MD, FSIR, recipient of the WIR Champion Award

In this episode, host Natosha N. Monfore, DO, speaks with 2025 Women in IR (WIR) Champion Award winner Maureen P. Ko...

This recording features audio versions of June 2025 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts:

• Comparison of Bypass Surgery versus Endovascular Interventions for Peripheral Artery Disease through Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials Read
• The Incidence and Consequences of Endovascular Technical Failure in Patients with Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia: Results from the Best E...

In this Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) audio episode, JVIR blog Editor Peter Li, MD, MS, uses artificial intelligence (AI) platform ElevenLabs to produce a podcast discussion on the November 2024 JVIR paper, "Using Voxel-Based Dosimetry to Evaluate Sphere Concentration and Tumor Dose in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treated with Yttrium-90 Radiation Segmentectomy with Glass Microspheres."

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"We had no tools. We just had to improvise. In a way, like you said, that was what made us think, 'How can I do this?' Because you had no tools, you had to think of ways to use what you had available to do procedures that otherwise you wouldn't have been able to do back then." —Wilfrido R. Castaneda-Zuniga, MD, FSIR, on innovation in early interventional radiology

In this episode, part of the ongoi...

This recording features audio versions of May 2025 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts:

• Recurrent Portal Hypertension after Liver Transplant: Impact on Survival and the Role of Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Creation in Management Read
• Nontarget Hemangioma Size Reduction after Bleomycin–Ethiodized Oil Embolization of Primary Hepatic Hemangioma Read
• MR–Guided Microwave Ablation for Patie...

During the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting, visit the SIR Today website each day for session previews and recaps, leadership and author interviews, award-winner inspirations, and much more. Tune in to these audio updates each morning for the day's programming highlights, the day's new content coming from SIR Today, and audio clips from article interviews.

In the Tuesday, A...

During the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting, visit the SIR Today website each day for session previews and recaps, leadership and author interviews, award-winner inspirations, and much more. Tune in to these audio updates each morning for the day's programming highlights, the day's new content coming from SIR Today, and audio clips from article interviews.

In the Monday, Ma...

During the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting, visit the SIR Today website each day for session previews and recaps, leadership and author interviews, award-winner inspirations, and much more. Tune in to these audio updates each morning for the day's programming highlights, the day's new content coming from SIR Today, and audio clips from article interviews.

In the Sunday, Ma...

During the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting, visit the SIR Today website each day for session previews and recaps, leadership and author interviews, award-winner inspirations, and much more. Tune in to these audio updates each morning for the day's programming highlights, the day's new content coming from SIR Today, and audio clips from article interviews.

In the Saturday, ...

This recording features audio versions of April 2025 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts:

• Adverse Events After Percutaneous Transhepatic Biliary Drainage: A 10-Year Retrospective Analysis Read
• Endovascular Therapy versus Anticoagulation Alone for Subacute Iliofemoral Deep Vein Thrombosis Read
• Improvement of Hypoalbuminemia and Hepatic Reserve after Stent Placement for Postsurgical Portal Vein Stenosis...

"... I had a call from my section chief, and he says, 'Hey—I don't want to freak you out or anything, but you know that website you created? SIR is going to send you a cease and desist letter. But don't worry about it—it'll be okay. I just wanted to give you a heads up ..." —John Do, MD, member of the SIR Guidelines App development team

In this episode, part of the ongoing celebration of the S...

"... I can tell you I'd never do it again, but it showed that we can get interventional radiologists from around the world to come together and agree to do a trial, and actually execute the trial and get it done, and generate guidelines training data."—Michael Soulen, MD, FSIR

In this episode, part of the ongoing celebration of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) 50th anniversary, host Nishita Koth...

"So the American Journal of Medicine was 'the green journal' ... Radiology was 'the grey journal' ... AJR is 'the yellow journal' ... I did not want people to be able to get away with that with JVIR, because I wanted them to have to articulate the name. And nobody's going to ask for 'the mauve journal.'"—Gary Becker, MD, FSIR

In this episode, part of the ongoing celebr...

This recording features audio versions of March 2025 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts:

• Safety and Effectiveness of Early Primary Stent Placement for Hepatic Artery Stenosis in Liver Transplant Recipients Read
• The LAVA Study: A Prospective, Multicenter, Single-Arm Study of a Liquid Embolic System for Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Hemorrhage Read
• Venous Stents Placed for Postthrombotic Syndrome: T...

The Piedmont Transplant Institute in Atlanta performs about 135 liver transplants each year. It’s the highest-volume liver transplant center of any nonacademic, community hospital in the United States and is among the top 10% in the nation of all transplant centers.

Piedmont’s success was achieved primarily because of the collaboration between various interdisciplinary departments—especially IR and hepatology—and an extensive networ...

"The early days were necessary to get us into doing things, solving problems without the data. And then the data came afterwards to confirm that the things we were doing were worthwhile." —Ernest Ring, MD, FSIR

In this episode, part of the ongoing celebration of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) 50th anniversary, host Gloria Salazar, MD, FSIR, chair of the SIR 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting, speaks wi...

In this Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) audio episode, JVIR blog Editor Peter Li, MD, MS, uses artificial intelligence (AI) platforms ChatGPT and DeScript to produce a podcast discussion on a Dec. 9 blog entry by Isabel Okinedo on the paper, "Primary Limb-Based Patency for Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia Treated with Endovascular Therapy Based on the Global Limb Anatomic Staging System."

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"Over time, that nerve regenerates. And that regenerated nerve is new, and wasn't there for the surgery, or wasn't there for the trauma. And so this is an ability to percutaneously—or through the skin with a needle—replace your damaged nerve."—J. David Prologo, MD, FSIR, on the potential of cryoneurolysis

In this episode, host Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR, speaks with J. David Prologo, MD, FSIR, about the e...