Journal «Angiology and Vascular Surgery» • 

2010 • VOLUME 16 • №1

ANNUAL CONGRESS OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR AND INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF EUROPE (CIRSE-2009)
September 18-21, 2009, Lisbon, Portugal

Shipovsky V.N.
Paediatric Department, Chair of Surgical Diseases Russian State Medical University,
Moscow, Russia

Reviewed in the article are the proceedings of the Annual Congress of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) held on September 18-21, 2009 in Lisbon, Portugal. The Forum centred upon recent achievements in such currently important trends of interventional radiology as carotid stenting, transcatheter embolization, endovascular prosthetic reconstruction of the aorta and its branches, angioplasty of the crural arteries in diabetic foot, prevention of pulmonary artery thromboembolism, peripheral interventions on lower-limb arteries, as well as interventions on the hepatic bile ducts in mechanical jaundice, transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) procedures, embolization of uterine arteries in womb myoma, vertebroplasty, venous interventions, interventions in renal artery stenoses, etc.

KEY WORDS: interventional radiology, transcatheter embolization, angioplasty, endovascular prosthetic reconstruction, stenting.

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