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. 2020 Oct 19;28(1):128–135. doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2020.10.005

Table 2.

Virtual Medical Student Lecture Topics and Associated Asynchronous Prelearning Text Materials

Category Lecture Topic Asynchronous Text Material
Intro IR basics
  • Interventional Radiology: A half century of Innovation (Radiology 2014, Baum and Baum)

  • IR Playbook: Tools of the Trade (Ch.4)

  • The inaccessible or undrainable abscess: How to drain it (Radiographics 2004, Maher et al)

Arterial interventions Peripheral arterial disease
  • IR Playbook: Aortiliac disease and infrainguinal disease (Ch. 30 and 31)

  • Recent trends in setting and specialty for endovascular peripheral arterial disease (JVIR 2020, Schramm et al)

Acute limb ischemia
  • Acute limb ischemia (TechVIR 2009, Walker)

  • Acute limb ischemia interventions (Interventional Cardiology Clinics 2020, Khan and Hawkins)

  • TOPAS trial (NEJM 1998, Ouriel et al)

Trauma
  • The evolving role of interventional radiology in trauma care (Journal of trauma injury, infection, and critical care 2005, Pryor et al)

  • IR in the ER (IR Quarterly feature, Fall 2017, Rose)

Venous interventions Venous disease
  • Catheter-directed thrombolysis in management of iliofemoral DVT (Radiographics 2016, Chen et al)

  • May-Thurner syndrome (Vascular Medicine 2018, Liddel and Evans)

  • Abstract review: CaVenT, ATTRACT, and Sox trials

IVC filters
  • IR playbook: IVC filters (Ch. 11)

  • IVC filters: Guidelines, best practice, and expanding indications (Seminars in IR 2016, DeYoung and Minocha)

Interventional oncology Ablation NA*
  • Tumor ablation: common modalities and general practices (TechVIR 2013, Knavel and Brace)*

  • Keeping out of trouble in ablation techniques (TechVIR 2018, Smirniotopoulos et al)*

  • Immuno-oncology and its opportunities for IRs (JVIR 2017, Hickey et al)*

Lung
  • IR Playbook: Lung, kidney, and bone ablation (Ch. 37)

  • Percutaneous lung tumor ablation (TechVIR 2013, Sheu and Hong)

Kidney
  • IR Playbook: Lung, kidney, and bone ablation (Ch. 37)

  • Renal tumor ablation (TechVIR 2013, Georgiades and Rodriguez

Liver
  • IR playbook: Liver ablation (Ch. 34)

Transarterial chemoembolization
  • IR Playbook: Transarterial chemoembolization (Ch. 37)

  • Optimizing transarterial therapies for hepatic malignancy (TechVIR 2018, Kouri)

  • Abstract review: Combined TACE and ablation

Hepato-biliary TIPS
  • IR playbook: TIPS (Ch. 38)

Biliary drainage
  • Clinical presentation, Imaging, and management of acute cholecystitis (TechVIR 2015, Katabathina et al)

  • Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (TechVIR 2008, Covey and Brown)

  • Benign biliary strictures: Evaluation and approaches to treatment (TechVIR 2015, Fidelman)

  • Percutaneous management of malignant biliary obstruction (TechVIR 2015, Sutter and Ryu)

Additional topics Uterine artery embolization and varicocele treatment
  • IR playbook: Uterine artery embolization (Ch. 28)

  • Uterine fibroid embolization: technical aspects (TechVIR 2002, Worthington-Kirsch et al)

  • IR playbook: Varicocele (Ch. 14)

PAVM embolization
  • PAVM embolization: An update (AJR 2010, Trerotola and Pyeritz)

Lymphatics and thoracic duct embolization
  • Modern techniques of lymphangiography and intervention (CVIR 2018, Itkin and Nadolski)

  • Lymphatic interventions for various types of lymphorrhea (Radiographics 2016, Inoue et al)

AJR, American Journal of Radiology; CVIR, Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology; IR, interventional radiology; IVC, inferior vena cava; JVIR, Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology; NA, not applicable; NEJM, New England Journal of Medicine; PAVM, pulmonary arteriovenous malformation; TechVIR, Techniques in Vascular and Interventional Radiology; TIPS, transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt.

Abbreviated citations are provided for articles and the complete citation for IR playbook is as follows: Keefe, Nicole A., et al, eds. IR Playbook: A Comprehensive Introduction to Interventional Radiology. Springer, 2018.

These materials were provided with the ablation lecture (lung, kidney, liver) that was delivered first.