Quarterly update

with Social Media Editor Sara Lojo

Dr. Sara Lojo is passionate about interventional radiology and has been involved in the editorial board of many publications since her training. She considers editorialism to be a fundamental tool for training, encouraging its development and bringing it closer to the new generations of IR professionals.

In this Quarterly Update, she will highlight key issues in IR and accompanying CVIR Endovascular articles on the topic.

Quarterly Update #3: Paediatric interventions

Published on June 2024

It took years after the birth of IR in 1953 before the first percutaneous closure of a patent ductus arteriosus was described in 1981, or the first splenoportographies were performed in paediatric patients by Charles Dotter himself in 1971.

Not so far from our days, one of the first text dedicated exclusively to paediatric radiology was published in 2014 by Michael Temple and Francis E. Marshalleck, describing paediatric interventional procedures. Paediatric interventional radiology remains as an unknown area to many of us, but its knowledge is completely necessary and with infinite possibilities of which we must be aware and keep up to date, at least in the basic management of these patients.

Here is a selection of what has been published in CVIR endovascular, from generic reviews to clinical cases, tools that help us to keep up to date in the management of the youngest patients.

Articles

Endovascular approaches in pediatric interventional oncology

Raja Shaikh and Fernando Gomez Munoz

Managing systemic venous occlusions in children

Anne E. Gill and Giridhar M. Shivaram

Renovascular hypertension in children

Premal Amrishkumar Patel and Anne Marie Cahill

Combined glue embolization and excision for the treatment of venous malformations

Rush H. Chewning, Eric J. Monroe, Antoinette Lindberg, Kevin S. H. Koo, Basavaraj V. Ghodke, Kenneth W. Gow, Patrick J. Javid, Thomas M. Jinguji, Jonathan A. Perkins and Giridhar M. Shivaram

Embolisation of the parenchymal tract after percutaneous portal vein catheterization: a retrospective comparison of outcomes with different techniques in two centres

Paolo Marra, Francesco Saverio Carbone, Luigi Augello, Ludovico Dulcetta, Riccardo Muglia, Pietro Andrea Bonaffini, Angelo Della Corte, Stephanie Steidler, Simone Gusmini, Giorgia Guazzarotti, Diego Palumbo, Massimo Venturini, Francesco De Cobelli and Sandro Sironi

Trans-cervical thoracic duct embolization for post-surgical left Chylothorax in a patient with multifocal lymphatic malformations

Karan Gulaya, Pouya Entezari, Riad Salem and Ahsun Riaz

Transsplenic tract closure after transsplenic portalvenous access using gelfoam-based tract plugging

Meine TC, Kretschmann N, Yerdelen SS, Wacker FK, Meyer BC and Hinrichs JB

Vascular anomalies: special considerations in children

Craig R. Gibson and Alex M. Barnacle

Endovascular management of traumatic pseudoaneurysms

Lauren Shreve, Maha Jarmakani, Hanna Javan, Ivan Babin, Kari Nelson, James Katrivesis, Michael Lekawa, Eric Kuncir, Dayantha Fernando and Nadine Abi-Jaoudeh