Multicenter Trial of the VenaTech Convertible Vena Cava Filter.

Purpose: To demonstrate rates of successful filter conversion and 6-month major device-related adverse events in subjects with converted caval filters.

Materials And Methods: An investigational device exemption multicenter, prospective, single-arm study was performed at 11 sites enrolling 149 patients. The VenaTech Convertible Vena Cava Filter (B.

Standardized Reporting in IR: A Prospective Multi-Institutional Pilot Study.

Purpose: To assess adoption and survey-based satisfaction rates following deployment of standardized interventional radiology (IR) procedure reports across multiple institutions.

Materials And Methods: Standardized reporting templates for 5 common interventional procedures (central venous access, inferior vena cava [IVC] filter insertion, IVC filter removal, uterine artery embolization, and vertebral augmentation) were distributed to 20 IR practices in a prospective quality-improvement study. Participating sites edited the reports according to institutional preferences and deployed them for a 1-year pilot study concluding in July 2015.

Percutaneous Cryoablation vs Partial Nephrectomy: Cost Comparison of T1a Tumors.

Purpose: To compare cost of percutaneous cryoablation vs open and robot-assisted partial nephrectomy of T1a renal masses from the hospital perspective.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively compared cost, clinical and tumor data of 37 percutaneous cryoablations to 26 open and 102 robot-assisted partial nephrectomies. Total cost was the sum of direct and indirect cost of procedural and periprocedural variables.

Bystander trauma in the World Trade Center disaster.

We present the CT and clinical findings in a 21-year old male who presented to the emergency department following bystander trauma during the rescue effort of the World Trade Center disaster.

Interbody allograft in a skeletally immature spine model.

The objective of this cadaveric biomechanical study was to establish further bovine spines as models for evaluating lumbar interbody allografts and to provide guidance for their use in pediatric humans. It is unknown whether interbody allografts can be used in the pediatric spine without failure of the host vertebral bone. Allografts were placed in cow and calf spines and loaded in compression.