Feb 18
Two sessions to tube free. Elderly suboptimal surgical candidate with chronic C tube - all done under moderate sedation.
Amazing to see how much the GB mucosa also improved after stone extraction (unfortunately don’t have good images saved)
#GI #surgery #VIRad #spyglass #withoutascalpel
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Chronically occluded Superior Vena Cava 'SVC CTO' crossed by pure {Dotterization technique}—no balloon expansion, no sharp tricks— because in solid
endovascular work, "Old is Gold". 🎥
#SIRS #SIR #CIRSE #Interventional_radiology #InterventionalRadiology #IRad #Endovascular #CTO #SVC #Radiology #MedTwitter #TwittIR #WithoutAScalpel #MedicalImaging #CharlesDotter
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"The moment of glory!"
#SIRS #UterineArteryEmbolization #Fibroids #InterventionalRadiology #Vascular #Embolization #WithoutAScalpel #FibroidTreatment
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16 Oct 2025
#CIRSEtakeover with Sanne de Boer
Meet our residents!
IR resident Eline Reijnders shares her experience working at Maastricht UMC and information about the A-IMAGIO study. 👇
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4055…
#TraineeThursday #womeninIR #withoutascalpel #IRadlife
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7 Aug 2025
We are thrilled to welcome our amazing matched VIR applicants for #Match2025!!🎉
Excited to have three incredible new members join our family, and we can’t wait to work with each of you.
#SIR #IRAD #WithoutAScalpel
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2 May 2025
#FilterOutFriday
Finally conquered my white whale: a Simon Nitinol Filter (placed 25 years ago).
Recurrent DVT due to untreated iliac vein compression—thrombotic, scarred, and stubborn.
With forceps, finesse, and force… out it came #VIRad #WithoutaScalpel
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5 Nov 2024
Very impressed with VBX 8L stent to predictably foreshorten when dilating to 16mm. Can see the difference in spacing in the final shot. Malignant SVC compression tx successfully #VIRad #withoutascalpel #venoused #cancer
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31 Oct 2024
Celebrating #Diwali🪔 "the festival of lights" the #Irad way🎆
Saving 2 patients from deadly #livercancer by burning the cancers precisely with #microwave #ablation
#HappyDiwali🎇
#minimallyinvasive #withoutascalpel
#cancer #oncoIR
#ISVIR #SIRRFS #medtwitter
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17 Oct 2024
When a patient goes from bleeding through a packed abdomen on massive transfusion and with 2 full poles of infusion pumps, to off pressors and stable within 8h - #VIRad has worked its magic, surgeon approved #withoutascalpel
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17 Oct 2024
#bariatricembolization #IRad
40y/F, NASH Diabetic
Obese pt struggling to loose weight
#LGAembolization for #obesity
1 month f/u:
Weight 86➡️74.5kg ✅
Are we underutilizing this awesome #minimallyinvasive treatment for obesity?
#ISVIR #SIRspecialists #SIRRFS #Withoutascalpel
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11 Oct 2024
“Doc, do I really need to stay after this? My rides here” - said the pt as I took this picture.
#VIRad #medtwitter #FOAMed #oncology #rectalcancer #metastasis #withoutascalpel #threadtheneedle
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8 Oct 2024
#Irad sniper attack on a giant painful #liver hemangioma
Embolic: Bleo Lipiodol
#Minimallyinvasive #Withoutascalpel #ISVIR #SIRRFS #embolization #medtwitter
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25 Jul 2024
Nutcracker? Or underdistended RV due to florid reflux? Stable pressures and improved distension of RV after gonadal embo, with resolution of pain #VIRad #withoutascalpel #PeVD @_backtable @SIRRFS #venoused
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Not to late to apply excellent opportunities for consultant Interventional Radiology and Fellow @SomersetFT @IR_Juniors @BSIRT #withoutascalpel
If you are not yet ready to CCT please still get in touch for future opportunities
23 May 2024
We are recruiting! Join our expanding team in a progressive and friendly Interventional Radiology Department @SomersetFT
Exciting developments: upcoming hybrid theatre and network expansion
Consultant
beta.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/j…
Fellow
jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadv…
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16 May 2024
1 week post GAE after partial arthroplasty - “Doc, before you even say anything, what a difference this had made, feels like I’ve turned right around!” - Pt back to gardening and golf #WithoutAScalpel #GAE #orthotwitter #MSK #pain #VIRad
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3 May 2024
First Spinejack as an attending. Smallest device still got some decent height restoration, patient went from 10/10 to 2/10 next day. #MSKIR #VIRad #kyphoplasty #withoutascalpel
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16 Apr 2024
#Palliative PVR for stage 4 pancreatic ca with cessation of GI bleeding and improvement in ascites. It may not change outcome but quality of life is worth fighting for. #VIRad #WithoutAScalpel @_backtable @SIR_ECS @SIRRFS #GITwitter
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8 Apr 2024
Did you know...the last solar eclipse is featured in episode 4 of our #WithoutAScalpel docuseries! #MIIPs treat/cure disease and let you enjoy once in a lifetime experiences! #SolarEclipse2024 @theIIMD @srj022 youtu.be/ftR4l__W9gc?si=PygY…
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8 Apr 2024
One of the best parts of being VTE/PERT director at my hospitals is watching my IR partners performing DVT thrombectomy safely and efficiently. #withoutascalpel #techis7mopregnant
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14 Mar 2024
So proud of @ShankswaranIR — huge, impactful series of a radically new way to treat bone cysts and make them disappear 🫥
⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ see below @CVIR_Journal
16% recurrence rate — 🔥 better than surgery and #withoutascalpel! 🪚🔪🪓
@MattHawkinsMD @Eric_Monroe_MD @EricSecemskyMD @LessneVIR @VRamaMD @rkryu @kmadass @AbhiKumar47 @VISLAMDSCAIP @t_intheleadcoat @SIRspecialists @SIRRFS @SIR_ECS @wais4100 @theIIMD @ajgunnmd @IRKhalsa @jalilka87 @KyleCooperMD @DonGarbettMD @AgnesSolberg @drcostantino1
14 Mar 2024
50 patients over 5 years treated with the Sclerograft technique
link.springer.com/article/10…
@CVIR_Journal @cvirendo @LurieRad @LurieOrtho @socpedsir
@_backtable
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