Interventional Radiologist (#iRad) in Huntsville, Al. Trying to keep my procedures and my tweets minimally invasive.
Huntsville, AL
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Genicular artery embolization for treatment of knee pain related to remote meniscal injury and chronic OA. #GAE
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A non-surgical procedure that temporarily blocks excess blood vessels in the knee is delivering lasting pain relief for osteoarthritis patients — and 80% of participants in a new clinical study reported significant reductions in knee pain that held for at least a full year.
The treatment, called genicular artery embolization (GAE), uses microscopic gelatin particles to clog unnecessary blood vessels that grow around arthritic knees, fueling inflammation and irritating nerves.
Researchers say GAE could fill a critical gap for millions of adults whose pain medications and steroid injections have stopped working but who aren't ready — or eligible — for a total knee replacement.
Full story here foxnews.com/health/knee-trea…
Partial splenic embolization for hypersplenism, targeting the lower pole branches that supply the lower half of the spleen. Embolized with Obsidio liquid embolic. @bostonsci - this may produce less procedural pain? #IRad #Embolization #Hypersplenism
Uterine artery embolization (UAE) blocks a fibroid's blood supply instead of cutting it out. Tiny particles, about the size of grains of sand, go in through a thin catheter, and the fibroid shrinks.
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Adrenal vein sampling for primary hyperaldosteronism, with right and left adrenal venograms. Quick poll for the IR crowd: are you using cosyntropin stimulation during AVS, or sampling unstimulated? Curious what everyone's doing. #IRad #AVS #Hyperaldosteronism
Up and over with the Inquis Aventus Device for concomitant femoral, and PE thrombectomy in the same session. (audio included)
DVT thrombectomy using dual access: a 16 Fr sheath through the posterior tibial vein and a 20 Fr through the popliteal vein. Working from both ends let us clear multiple venous segments at the same time instead of one at a time. #IRad #DVT #Thrombectomy
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FDA has authorized REGAIN 🎉, a first-of-its-kind trial delivering umbilical cord MSCs through the genicular arteries for knee OA.
IR + Orthopaedics + ISCI: precision delivery meets regenerative medicine.
Full story 👇
news.med.miami.edu/artery-de…
The new college football playoff has to be a step towards dismantling the conferences. The SEC is the only real loser in that scenario. No one will care that UCLA isn’t traveling to play Michigan in the big house any more.
Quick summary of the data (and our experience) with sedation in PE. The sicker the patient, the lighter the sedation.
This seems silly but my one (and maybe only) travel hack is to get everyone matching carry-ons. That way everyone gets the same amount of space and we don’t check bags. We don’t travel longer than 5 days without stopping at a place w a washing machine
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Cooper Kupp's mindset is a blueprint for the inner game of performance.
“From Monday through Saturday, I do everything I can to be the best version of myself…Once I step on the field, it doesn’t matter. The results don’t matter. I get to play from victory, not for victory.”
You can’t play free until you’ve done the work.
Preparation builds confidence. Detachment unlocks freedom.
When you combine the two, you perform from a place of peace, not pressure.
📹: The Pivot Podcast
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Hospital version of using technology to improve efficiency: take a simple paper consent form, which takes about 15 seconds to fill out, and replace it with an “e-consent” which takes about 60 clicks and 5x the time.
Then they wonder why doctors are burned out.
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Hot off the press. Y90 continues to expand reach in bridging/downstaging #HCC (2025 data) @JVIRmedia @DieHCCDie @BeauToskichMD @laurakulik1
doi.org/10.1016/j.jvir.2026.…
This may seem like a random question, but for those doing PE and DVT procedures…. If you could only choose one feature of a device what would it be?
(Assume high-quality pump suction and FDA vetted blood return)
47%Continuous pump suction
53%Blood return to patient
62 votes • Final results Austin Bourgeois retweeted
What makes a great doctor?
There’s a superpower I’ve noticed in the best doctors.
It's not knowledge, technical skill, intelligence, communication or listening. Of course all these matter.
The best doctors I know are exceptionally good at noticing.
They notice the small, subtle, unusual, seemingly minor details.
Noticing often creates an internal voice. But when said out loud, it sounds like:
Mid procedure: "did you see that?
In clinic: "did you notice how the patient said that"
Because in medicine, noticing can completely change what happens next:
You look again.
Ask another question.
Change the plan.
Cancel the procedure.
Act before the problem fully declares itself.
Some of the biggest decisions in medicine can begin with something very small:
"Did you notice that?"
Agree? What is another superpower to consider?
Watching my high school play Baylor on ESPN … feeling like high school football could be the new college football.
