Special sections

In this special section, guest edited by Laura Crocetti and Martijn Meijerink, leading experts explore how retrospective data, real world evidence, trial design, economic literacy, meta analysis, and artificial intelligence are shaping a more mature and sustainable scientific foundation of IO. Together, these articles offer practical insights and forward looking perspectives that go well beyond the procedure itself. 

Issue: May 2026

This special section is dedicated to musculoskeletal embolization and showcases ground-breaking original research, accompanied by insightful commentaries, comprehensive reviews, and letters from leading voices in interventional radiology.

Issue: December 2025

This special section focused on pain management and was curated by guest editors Doctors Georgia Tsoumakidou and Frédéric Deschamps.

Whether you are a healthcare professional, referring physician, or interventional radiologist seeking cutting-edge solutions, this issue will provide valuable insights into how IR is shaping the future of pain management. Pain management has been transformed, and IR is at the forefront of this evolution.

Issue: July 2025

This special section is dedicated to deep venous interventions was curated by guest editor Prof. Gerry O'Sullivan.

This article collection is meant to provide the reader with a detailed and comprehensive overview of the current evidence for and best techniques to achieve success in deep venous intervention.

Issue: December 2024

This special section was curated by guest editor Prof. Julien Garnon and is dedicated to MSK interventions  and presents the latest technical advancements and most significant data from the literature on hot topics in MSK. The goal is to give any IR an overview of what is feasible and for which result.

Issue: November 2023

Take a look at the special section videos! Guest editors and authors of selected articles in the special section on MSK have highlighted some of the key issues covered and given readers a preview.

CVIR's latest special section was curated by guest editors Professors Kiang Hiong Tay, Scott Trerotola and Bien Soo Tan and is dedicated to dialysis access interventions.

In an editorial for the special section, the guest editors say "Interventional therapies now provide a comprehensive service for dialysis access creation and management, and this special issue provides a clinical review of the current hot topics in this arena as well as revisits traditional topics with updates from experts in the field."

Issue: September 2023

This special section dedicated to radioembolisation was curated by guest editors Professors Laura Crocetti and Thierry de Baère.

Professors Crocetti and de Baère commissioned nine articles, which they say "cover the most recent knowledge and scientific evidence about radioembolization technique, patient selection and clinical outcomes."

In an editorial for the special section, the guest editors conclude "A lot has been learnt in terms of dosimetry and patient selection, and this supplementary issue of CVIR will provide the reader many valuable information. Radioembolization is alive, and same player shoots again!"

Issue: November 2022

This special section is dedicated to TIPS, curated by Dr. Tiago Bilhim (Lisbon/PT).

It is a collection of articles on one of the most challenging interventional radiology procedures i.e., Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS), which were written by renowned international voices in the field.

Issue: May 2022

This special section is dedicated to radiation protection, curated by Prof. Werner Jaschke (Innsbruck/AT) and written by groups of experts on the topic.

This collection of articles on radiation protection endeavours to provide essential information on how to keep patients and operators safe from unnecessarily high doses of radiation. 

Issue: June 2021

Guest Editor, Prof. Ajay Chavan (Oldenburg/DE) put together a section on aortic intervetions for the special issue, with an aim to give readers a state-of-the-art overview of the topic.

The issue features review articles on endoluminal treatment of the aortic arch and of various aortic segments further distally, secondary endoleak management, the state-of-the-art imaging, open surgical options in case endoluminal therapy fails and many more.

Issue: December 2020

Browse articles in the special section dedicated to COVID-19, including articles on how to handle COVID-19 patients in the angio suite, a checklist for preparing your IR department for a pandemic, and reports, lessons learned from treating patients.  

Issue: June 2020

The articles, commissioned by the former Section Editor for Oncological Interventions Thierry de Baère (Villejuif/FR), provide the field’s leading experts with the opportunity to share the latest information on interventional oncology, with multidisciplinary perspectives.

The IO secion os divided into two parts:

-  essential information that IRs need to know about IO

- oncology-specific procedures on targeted organs

Issue: September 2019