Minimally invasive transcatheter embolization is a common nonsurgical procedure in
interventional radiology used for the deliberate occlusion of blood vessels for the treatment …

Trauma continues to be the leading cause of death in the young population. Uncontrolled
bleeding is a major factor in early mortality after trauma, contributing to 30 to 40% of trauma …

Pulmonary transit of agitated contrast (PTAC) occurs to variable extents during exercise. We
tested the hypothesis that the onset of PTAC signifies flow through larger-caliber vessels …

Abstract Poly (vinyl alcohol)(PVA) is a water‐soluble synthetic polymer with excellent film‐
forming, emulsifying, and adhesive properties. The aim of this study is to design a simple …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: To follow the local tissue delivery of doxorubicin in HCC explants
from patients embolized with drug-eluting beads and to compare it with histologic …

Vascular embolisation agents are particles or fluids that can be released into the
bloodstream through a catheter to mechanically and/or biologically occlude the target …

Last years, calibrated microspheres have proven their superiority in targeting embolization
over non spherical particles in many applications. For the very near future they represent the …

Therapeutic embolotherapy is the deliberate occlusion of a blood vessel within the body,
which can be for the prevention of internal bleeding, stemming of flow through an …

PURPOSE: To develop and characterize radiopaque embolization microspheres capable of
in vivo detection with intraprocedural fluoroscopy and computed tomography (CT) imaging …

Angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels from pre-existing vasculature, is one of
the central key steps in tumor progression and metastasis. Consequently, it became an …