Author & Illustrator: Tiffany Ni | Medical Student at University of Toronto, Temerty Faculty of Medicine Editor: Rohan Patil | Medical Student at The George Washington University SMHS In 1979, a 54-year-old woman presented to the hospital complaining of severe cervical pain for years. On plain radiographs of her cervical Read more…
Carl Arrhenius was indulging his interest in gunpowder in search of new combustible elements near a mine. He noticed a most unusual band of dark, heavy metal running in the rock. Little did the lieutenant know that his discovery would later serve as the foundation of one of the most fashionable and fascinating procedures in Interventional Radiology.
This is the story of an inventor who built a lead shield that hangs from overhead. It is a story of someone working with limited resources and little help, motivated by necessity, and achieving unconventional success. And it all started in the interventional suite when Dr. Chet Rees developed back pain.
This is the story of an inventor who built a lead shield that hangs from overhead. It is a story of someone working with limited resources and little help, motivated by necessity, and achieving unconventional success. And it all started in the interventional suite when Dr. Chet Rees developed back pain.
This is the story of an inventor who built a lead shield that hangs from overhead. It is a story of someone working with limited resources and little help, motivated by necessity, and achieving unconventional success. And it all started in the interventional suite when Dr. Chet Rees developed back pain.
By Ravish Patel What do the slinky, chocolate-chip cookies, fireworks, and the transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) all have in common? They were all discovered by accident! It’s hard to think that a medical procedure with such a long name could have been discovered by accident, but sometimes accidents result Read more…
This is the story of an inventor who built a lead shield that hangs from overhead. It is a story of someone working with limited resources and little help, motivated by necessity, and achieving unconventional success. And it all started in the interventional suite when Dr. Chet Rees developed back pain.
When you see an image of an oil rig floating in the ocean, what do you think of? The scent of crude oil weighing heavily in the breeze, or maybe the gasoline you pump into your car? How about inferior vena cava filters? The oil industry doesn’t seem like the best place to look for an answer to how to make a better filter for thrombotic blood—believe it or not, that’s where the inspiration came from.
As with many past stories of innovation, Intravascular Lithotripsy demonstrates the limitless possibilities when you put an engineer, a physician, and a businessman in the same room. This is a story of an unrelenting determination and the creative use of an existing technology that sends shockwaves to the world of calcified arteries.