Percutaneous Radiofrequency Ablation
Percutaneous Balloon Compression and Percutaneous Radiofrequency Ablation in Patients with Idiopathic Trigeminal Neuralgia: Management Outcome
... As regards Percutaneous Radiofrequency ablation (RFA), most of the studies reported very high initial pain relief. Tew et al. [14] reported a 99.4% initial pain relief and 20% recurrence rate with a ...
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Ultrasound-Guided Thoracic Paravertebral Block for Controlling Pain in Percutaneous Radiofrequency Ablation of Hepatic Tumors: A Prospective Case Series
... block with nerve stimulator guidance as the sole anesthetic for percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of hepatic tumor. Their result delivered adequate pain relief during RFA, with median VNS (verbal ...
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Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of renal tumours: 29-month mean follow-up results of 118 patients
... Percutaneous Radiofrequency ablation is a mi- nimally invasive method of treatment based on thermal effects, the tissues caused by the high- frequency electrical ...
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Radiographic Local Control of Spinal Metastases with Percutaneous Radiofrequency Ablation and Vertebral Augmentation
... Written informed consent was obtained before all treatments. All procedures were performed under fluoroscopic or CT guidance with the patient consciously sedated. The skin, soft tissues, and periosteum overlying the ...
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Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation with contrast enhanced ultrasonography for solitary and sporadic renal cell carcinoma in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
... The ultimate goal of RFA is to completely damage the entire tumor and to preserve renal function as much as possible. As we all know, most solitary and sporadic renal tumors in ADPKD patients were surrounded by renal ...
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Intraprocedural contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in liver percutaneous radiofrequency ablation: clinical impact and health technology assessment
... new ablation immediately, in the same session, was made on the basis of the critical analysis of the result of intraprocedural CEUS made by the interventional ...incomplete ablation at CEUS a second ...
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Meta-analysis of percutaneous radiofrequency ablation versus ethanol injection in hepatocellular carcinoma
... A review of the literature was conducted in PubMed, ISI Web of Science and The Cochrane Library from January 1990 to August 2008, using the following terms: "carci- noma, hepatocellular" [MeSH Terms], ...
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Systematic evaluation of percutaneous radiofrequency ablation versus percutaneous ethanol injection for the treatment of small hepatocellular carcinoma: a meta-analysis
... including percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI), radiofrequency ablation (RFA), microwave thermal ablation and percutaneous acid in- ...
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Percutaneous Radiofrequency Ablation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma against the Diaphragm: Is Artificial Ascites Necessary?
... for radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of peridiaphragmatic hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) through retrospective cohort analysis com- paring characteristics and complications of peridiaphragmatic HCC without the ...
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Long term survival of hepatocellular carcinoma after percutaneous radiofrequency ablation guided by ultrasound
... In order to improve the OS after local tumor ablation, it is a necessity to identify the risk factors for OS and recur- rence. The present study showed that tumor size, albumin, prothrombin time, and α-fetoprotein ...
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<p>Anesthesia for Percutaneous Radiofrequency Tumor Ablation (PRFA): A Review of Current Practice and Techniques</p>
... Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation (PRFA) of solid tumors is a minimally invasive procedure intended to treat primary and/or metastatic solid tumors via thermal tissue destruction as a result of ...
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Stroke rates before and after ablation of atrial fibrillation and in propensity-matched controls in the UK
... data, ablation patients were matched to two control cohorts via direct and propensity score ...4,991 ablation patients were matched 1:1 to general AF controls with no ablation, and 5,407 ...
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Minimally invasive image-guided therapy for inoperable hepatocellular carcinoma: What is the evidence today?
... Cryoablation is a technique in which a liquid nitrogen- cooled cryoprobe is placed into the tumor and an ice ball is created in the target tissue. The freezing of tissue with temperatures between −20°C and −60°C followed ...
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Left atrial voltage remodeling after pulmonary venous isolation with multipolar radiofrequency ablation
... surgical ablation of atrial fib- rillation: Recommendations for patient selection, proce- dural techniques, patient management and follow-up, definitions, endpoints, and research trial ...
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Cooled radiofrequency denervation for treatment of sacroiliac joint pain: two-year results from 20 cases
... An 18-gauge SMK introducer needle was inserted under fluoroscopic guidance in a tunnel view approach sequentially onto the target positions described above until the introducer tip touched the bony surface of the sacrum. ...
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Radiofrequency ablation of lung tumours
... Abstract Pulmonary radiofrequency ablation (RFA) has become an increasingly adopted treatment option for primary and metastatic lung tumours. It is mainly per- formed in patients with unresectable or ...
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18. C. Venkatasalam and A. Nagappan
... The technical efficiency of ablation is commonly assessed by findings on contrast-enhanced CT or MRI. A tumor cell should be considered to have been successfully ablated when there were no longer any improved ...
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Mechanochemical endovenous ablation versus radiofrequency ablation in the treatment of primary small saphenous vein insufficiency (MESSI trial): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... Endovenous ablation versus radiofrequency ablation in the treatment of primary Small Saphenous vein Insufficiency) is a multicenter randomized controlled trial in which a total of 160 patients will ...
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Comparison of 1470 nm Radial Fiber Laser Ablation and Radiofrequency Ablation in Endovascular Treatment of Venous Insufficiency
... the ablation protocol distally from the SEV, use of sedation and local anesthesia rather than general or spinal anesthesia, early mobilization, me- chanical and medical thromboembolism prophylaxis ...
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Radiofrequency Ablation for Post Infarction Ventricular Tachycardia
... Targeted ablation of a single morphology of haemodynamically stable VT can be successful in over 80% of ...in ablation of VT has been to target all inducible morphologies of monomorphic sustained ...
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