MRI paraspinous skeletal muscle enhancement: A potential imaging biomarker for assessing clinical liver cirrhosis severity.

Purpose: To evaluate for correlation between MRI paraspinous muscle (PSM) enhancement and clinical measures of cirrhosis severity (CMCS) utilizing established imaging biomarkers of sarcopenia as comparison.

Materials And Methods: Retrospective evaluation of 224 patients (mean age 59.6± 9.

Predictors of Prostatic Artery Embolization Technical Outcomes: Patient and Procedural Factors.

Purpose: To identify technical factors that significantly change prostatic artery embolization (PAE) technical outcomes and to derive and test technical outcome predictive models.

Materials And Methods: Retrospective analysis of PAEs performed by 2 operators (OPs) was performed: OP1, between April 2014 and May 2017 (n = 150); OP2, between February 2017 and December 2017 (n = 67). Multivariate analysis with mixed-effects modeling was used to test significance and derive predictive models.

Building a culture of safety in interventional radiology.

Safety in medicine is a pressing issue. It has been shown that deaths due to medical error range from 98,000 to 400,000 per year in the United States. Since this issue was broached in 1999, a variety of clinical and institutional safety interventions have been pioneered; however, the medical community has realized that without a strong institutional safety culture, the efficacy of these interventions is limited.