best of 2022: Editor's choice

Dear CVIR readers,

 

We are pleased to share with you the list of Prof. Klaus Hausegger's favourite articles published in 2022.

Make sure to read and share them with your peers.

 

January 

 

Cadaveric and Angiographic Anatomical Considerations in the Genicular Arterial System: Implications for Genicular Artery Embolisation in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis

Aiden O’Grady, Luke Welsh, Matthew Gibson, James Briggs, Archie Speirs & Mark Little 

 

Detailed Arterial Anatomical Knowledge of the Geniculate Arteries is Essential When Starting a GAE Program to Treat OA

Carlos J. Guevara

 

Long Term Survival Analysis in a Cohort of 125 Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treated with Transarterial Chemoembolization Using Small Drug Eluting Beads

Tommaso Cascella, Enrico Matteo Garanzini, Rodolfo Lanocita, Carlo Morosi, Federica Riva, Giorgio Greco, Carlo Sposito, Vincenzo Mazzaferro, Alfonso Marchianò & Carlo Spreafico 

 

February

 

Randomised Controlled Trial of Particles Used in Uterine fibRoid Embolisation (PURE): Non-Spherical Polyvinyl Alcohol Versus Calibrated Microspheres

Raj Das, Anita Wale, Seyed Ameli Renani, Lakshmi Ratnam, Leto Mailli, Joo-Young Chun, Sourav Das, Balpreet Duggal, Isaac Manyonda & Anna-Maria Belli 

 

March

 

Prime Time for Artificial Intelligence in Interventional Radiology

Jarrel Seah, Tom Boeken, Marc Sapoval & Gerard S. Goh 

 

Cost-Effectiveness of Urea Excipient-Based Drug-Coated Balloons for Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia from Femoropopliteal Disease in the Netherlands and Germany

Jan B. Pietzsch, Benjamin P. Geisler, Annabelle R. Iken, Iris P. S. van Wijck, Suzanne Holewijn & Michel M. P. J. Reijnen 

 

April

 

Minimally Invasive Therapies for Benign Prostatic Obstruction: A Review of Currently Available Techniques Including Prostatic Artery Embolization, Water Vapor Thermal Therapy, Prostatic Urethral Lift, Temporary Implantable Nitinol Device and Aquablation

Tiago Bilhim, Patrick Betschart, Pavel Lyatoshinsky, Gautier Müllhaupt & Dominik Abt 

 

Evaluation of Multiple Embolic Agents for Embolization of the Superior Rectal Artery in an Animal Model

Farouk Tradi, Julien Panneau, Pauline Brige, Diane Mege, Paul Habert, Jean Francois Hak, Mathieu Di Bisceglie & Vincent Vidal 

 

May

 

Extra, Extra: Read all About it—This is TIPS Generation, Baby!

Tiago Bilhim & Klaus Hausegger 

 

Comparison of the Covered Self-Expandable Viatorr CX Stent with the Covered Balloon-Expandable BeGraft Peripheral Stent for Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS) Creation: a Single-Centre Retrospective Study in Patients with Variceal Bleeding

Michael Schultheiss, Dominik Bettinger, Lukas Sturm, Arthur Schmidt, Johanna Backhus, Oliver Waidmann, Klaus Radecke, Daniel Grandt, Robert Thimme & Martin Rössle 

 

Meet A New Boss, Not Quite The Old Boss

Ziv J Haskal 

 

Clinical Outcomes of Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (Tips) Creation Using Fluency Versus Viatorr Stent-Grafts: A Single-Centre Retrospective Study

Hua-Mei Wu, Song-Quan Huang, Yue-Meng Wan, Yu-Hua Li & Ying Xu 

 

Single-Centre Retrospective Study Using Propensity Score Matching Comparing Left Versus Right Internal Jugular Vein Access for Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS) Creation

Zhenkang Qiu, Wenliang Zhu, Huzheng Yan, Guobao Wang, Mengxuan Zuo, Han Qi, Guisong Wang, Weiwei Jiang, Jingbing Xue, Fujun Zhang & Fei Gao 

 

Hepatic Encephalopathy After TIPS Placement: Predictive Factors, Prevention Strategies, and Management

Xin Li, Sasan Partovi, Wendy Melissa Coronado, Sameer Gadani, Charles Martin, Dustin Thompson, Abraham Levitin & Baljendra Kapoor 

 

Safety and Efficacy of Microwave Ablation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the Setting of Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt

Jenny Yan, Xiaohan Ying, Anuj Malhotra, Adam Talenfeld, Resmi Charalel, Kyungmouk Steve Lee, David Trost & Andrew Kesselman 

 

Liver Growth and Portal Hypertension Improvement After Percutaneous Recanalization of Chronic Portal Vein Thrombosis in Non-Cirrhotic Participants

Raphael Braz Levigard, Henrique Salas, Henrique Serrão, Felipe Diniz, Cristiane Alves Villela Nogueira, Alicia Araújo de Oliveira, Nathalie Carvalho Leite, Marcia Ladeira, Maria Chiara Chindamo & Gustavo Pereira 

 

June

 

Drug-Eluting Balloon for Below the Knee Angioplasty: Five-Year Outcome of the DEBATE-BTK Randomized Clinical Trial

Francesco Liistro, Matteo Rocco Reccia, Paolo Angioli, Kenneth Ducci, Giorgio Ventoruzzo, Giovanni Falsini, Alessia Scatena, Maurizio Pieroni & Leonardo Bolognese 

 

Comparison of the Efficacy Among Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolization (TACE)–Radiofrequency Ablation Plus Apatinib, TACE Plus Apatinib, and TACE Alone for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Retrospective Study

Tao Ouyang, Yanyan Cao, Lei Chen & Chuansheng Zheng 

 

July

 

Outcomes of unilateral versus bilateral use of the Iliac Branch Endoprosthesis for elective endovascular treatment of aorto-iliac aneurysms 
Mario D’Oria, Emanuel R. Tenorio, Gustavo S. Oderich, Randall R. DeMartino, Manju Kalra, Fahad Shuja, Jill J. Colglazier & Bernardo C. Mendes 

 

Liver Venous Deprivation (LVD) Versus Portal Vein Embolization (PVE) Alone Prior to Extended Hepatectomy: A Matched Pair Analysis

Georg Böning, Uli Fehrenbach, Timo Alexander Auer, Konrad Neumann, Martin Jonczyk, Johann Pratschke, Wenzel Schöning, Moritz Schmelzle & Bernhard Gebauer 

 

Image-Guided Embolotherapy of Arteriovenous Malformations of the Face
Vanessa F. Schmidt, Max Masthoff, Richard Brill, Peter B. Sporns, Michael Köhler, Victor Schulze-Zachau, Martin Takes, Denis Ehrl, Daniel Puhr-Westerheide, Wolfgang G. Kunz, Mwivano Dunstan Shemwetta, Eric M. Mbuguje, Azza A. Naif, Abizer Sarkar, Jens Ricke, Max Seidensticker, Walter A. Wohlgemuth & Moritz Wildgruber 

 

August

 

A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Patient Survival and Disease Recurrence Following Percutaneous Ablation of Pulmonary Metastasis
Minhtuan Nguyenhuy, Yifan Xu, Julian Maingard, Stephen Barnett, Hong Kuan Kok, Mark Brooks, Ashu Jhamb, Hamed Asadi & Simon Knight 

 

Improved Outcomes of Thermal Ablation for Colorectal Liver Metastases: A 10-Year Analysis from the Prospective Amsterdam CORE Registry (AmCORE)

Robbert S. Puijk, Madelon Dijkstra, Bente A. T. van den Bemd, Alette H. Ruarus, Sanne Nieuwenhuizen, Bart Geboers, Florentine E. F. Timmer, Evelien A. C. Schouten, Jan J. J. de Vries, Bram B. van der Meijs, Karin Nielsen, Rutger-Jan Swijnenburg, M. Petrousjka van den Tol, Kathelijn S. Versteeg, Birgit I. Lissenberg-Witte, Hester J. Scheffer & Martijn R. Meijerink 

 

Yttrium-90 Radioembolization of Unresectable Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma: Long-term follow-up for a 136-patient cohort
Aakash N. Gupta, Andrew C. Gordon, Ahmed Gabr, Aparna Kalyan, Sheetal M. Kircher, Devalingam Mahalingam, Mary F. Mulcahy, Ryan P. Merkow, Anthony D. Yang, David J. Bentrem, Juan C. Caicedo-Ramirez, Ahsun Riaz, Bartley Thornburg, Kush Desai, Kent T. Sato, Elias S. Hohlastos, Laura Kulik, Al B. Benson, Riad Salem & Robert J. Lewandowski 

 

September

 

Long-Term Outcomes of the 150 mm Drug-Coated Balloon Cohort from the IN.PACT Global Study

Marianne Brodmann, Wouter Lansink, Katharina Guetl, Antonio Micari, Jeremiah Menk & Thomas Zeller 

 

Predictive Factors for Sustained Pain after (sub)acute Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures. Combined Results from the VERTOS II and VERTOS IV Trial

Cristina E. Firanescu, Alexander Venmans, Jolanda de Vries, Paul Lodder, Marinus C. Schoemaker, Albert J. Smeets, Esther Donga, Job R. Juttmann, Karen Schonenberg, Caroline A. H. Klazen, Otto E. H. Elgersma, Frits H. Jansen, Hendrik Fransen, Joshua A. Hirsch & Paul N. M. Lohle 

 

Long-Term Outcome of Prostatic Artery Embolization for Patients with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Single-Centre Retrospective Study in 1072 Patients Over a 10-Year Period

Tiago Bilhim, Nuno Vasco Costa, Daniel Torres, Luís Campos Pinheiro & Erik Spaepen 

 

Use of a p64 MW Flow Diverter with Hydrophilic Polymer Coating (HPC) and Prasugrel Single Antiplatelet Therapy for the Treatment of Unruptured Anterior Circulation Aneurysms: Safety Data and Short-term Occlusion Rates

V. Hellstern, M. Aguilar Pérez, E. Henkes, E. Donauer, C. Wendl, H. Bäzner, O. Ganslandt & H. Henkes 

 

October

 

Old IR Challenges: It’s Time for Common Views and Actions!

Roberto Luigi Cazzato, Julien Garnon & Afshin Gangi 

 

EBIR-Helping to Foster Global IR

Colin Nice 

 

Locoregional Challenges for Interventional Radiology Practice: USA

John A. Kaufman 

 

Locoregional Challenges For Interventional Radiology Practice in The Middle East/North Africa

Karim A. Abd El Tawab & Mohammad Arabi 

 

IR in Japan

Toshihiro Iguchi & Koichiro Yamakado 

 

Locoregional Perspectives/Challenges for Interventional Radiology Practice in the UK

Raman Uberoi & Robert Morgan 

 

Locoregional Challenges for Interventional Radiology Practice: Specialty de facto but not de jure 

Jose Urbano 

 

Interventional Radiology: Tradition or Evolution?

Sara Protto & Niko Sillanpää 

 

Locoregional Challenges for Interventional Radiology Practice: Australia

Warren Clements 

 

Challenges of Interventional Radiology in Brazil

Vinicius Adami Vayego Fornazari & Joaquim Maurício da Motta-Leal-Filho 

 

Perspectives/Challenges on IR Practice in India

Sanjiv Sharma & Kartik P. Ganga 

 

Hospitalization and Death in the First 30 days After Outpatient Lower Extremity Arterial Stenting

Simon Jan, Yann Gouëffic, Olivier Grimaud & Nolwenn Le Meur 

 

Minimally Invasive Segmental Artery Coil Embolization (MISACE) Prior to Endovascular Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair

Jamil A. K. Addas, Sebastian Mafeld, Daniyal N. Mahmood, Arshdeep Sidhu, Maral Ouzounian, Thomas F. Lindsay & Kong Teng Tan 

 

November

 

Radioembolization: Same Player Shoots Again

Thierry de Baere & Laura Crocetti 

 

Role of Transhepatic Arterial Radioembolization in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

Irene Bargellini, Elena Bozzi, Giulia Lorenzoni, Giuseppe Boni, Francesca Bianchi, Claudio Antonio Traino, Gianluca Masi, Roberto Cioni & Laura Crocetti 

 

Role of Radioembolization in Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumors

Robert J. Lewandowski, Beau B. Toskich, Daniel B. Brown, Ghassan El-Haddad & Siddharth A. Padia 

 

TARE in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: From the Right to the Left of BCLC

Boris Guiu, Etienne Garin, Carole Allimant, Julien Edeline & Riad Salem 

 

Trans-arterial Radioembolization Dosimetry in 2022

Etienne Garin, Boris Guiu, Julien Edeline, Yan Rolland & Xavier Palard 

 

SIRT in 2025

Francesca Romana Ponziani, Francesco Santopaolo, Alessandro Posa, Maurizio Pompili, Alessandro Tanzilli, Marta Maestri, Maria Pallozzi, Francesca Ibba, Riccardo Manfredi, Antonio Gasbarrini & Roberto Iezzi 

 

Holmium-166 Radioembolization: Current Status and Future Prospective

Martina Stella, Arthur J. A. T. Braat, Rob van Rooij, Hugo W. A. M. de Jong & Marnix G. E. H. Lam 

 

Transarterial Radioembolization to Impact Liver Volumetry: When and How

Arash Najafi & Christoph A. Binkert 

 

The Role of Catheter-Directed CT-Angiography in Radioembolisation

Kun Da Zhuang, Aaron Kian-Ti Tong, David Chee Eng Ng & Kiang Hiong Tay 

 

Overview of Ongoing Clinical Trials on Radioembolization

Matthias P. Fabritius & Jens Ricke 

 

Cost-Effectiveness of Drug-Coated Balloon Angioplasty Versus Conventional Balloon Angioplasty for Treating Below-the-Knee Arteries in Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia: The SINGA-PACLI Trial

Nirmali Sivapragasam, David B. Matchar, Kun Da Zhuang, Ankur Patel, Uei Pua, Hlaing Hlaing Win, Sivanathan Chandramohan, Nanda Venkatanarasimha, Jasmine M. E. Chua, Glenn Wei Leong Tan, Farah G. Irani, Sum Leong, Kiang Hiong Tay, Tze Tec Chong & Bien Soo Tan 

 

The Complex Scenario of Drug-Coated Balloons in Below-the-Knee Arteries: “Repetita Non Iuvant”

Francesco Liistro 

 

December

 

Long-Term Effectiveness and Safety of Femoropopliteal Drug-Coated Balloon Angioplasty :  5-Year Results of the Randomized Controlled EffPac Trial

Ulf Teichgräber, Thomas Lehmann, Maja Ingwersen, René Aschenbach, Thomas Zeller, Klaus Brechtel, Erwin Blessing, Michael Lichtenberg, Peter von Flotow, Britta Heilmeier, Sebastian Sixt, Steffen Brucks, Christian Erbel, Ulrich Beschorner, Michael Werk, Vicenç Riambau, Andreas Wienke, Christof Klumb, Markus Thieme & Dierk Scheinert 

 

Improvement of Outcome for Treatment of ‘Restenosis-prone’ Vascular Lesions? Potential Impact of the Paclitaxel dose on Late Lumen Loss in Porcine Peripheral Arteries

Ole Gemeinhardt, Tobias Haase, Beatrix Schnorr, Jing Xie, Melanie Löchel, Denise Schütt, Antje Mittag, Wolfram Haider, Stephanie Bettink, Ulrich Speck & Gunnar Tepe 

 

Commentary: Improvement of Outcome for Treatment of “Restenosis-prone” Vascular Lesions? Potential Impact of the Paclitaxel dose on Late Lumen Loss in Porcine Peripheral Arteries

Trevor Cleveland 

 

Long-Term Efficacy and Recurrence Prediction of Prostatic Artery Embolization for Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Secondary to Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

Zhong-Wei Xu, Chun-Gao Zhou, Wei Tian, Hai-Bin Shi & Sheng Liu 

 

Commentary on “Long-Term Efficacy and Recurrence Prediction of Prostatic Artery Embolization for Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Secondary to Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia” Xu X, et al. CVIR 2022

Katherine McNamara & Andrew C. Picel