Episode 43: The state of interventional radiology research in venous obstruction

"When you put energy into something, and passion and determination, and when people can see that you've also put in the scholarship, people will give you opportunities. And you know, honestly, I thought I was setting this up for somebody else!"—Suresh Vedantham, MD, FSIR, C-TRACT Principal Investigator

Host Roger Tomihama, MD, speaks with C-TRACT (Chronic Venous Thrombosis: Relief with Adjunctive Catheter-directed Therapy) Principal Investigator Suresh Vedantham, MD, FSIR, about the trial's status, other early research the interventional radiology community should know about and more.

Related resources:

• SIR Foundation C-TRACT page
• Society of Interventional Radiology Position Statement on the Management of Chronic Iliofemoral Venous Obstruction with Endovascular Placement of Metallic Stents (Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Articles in Press)
• Doing the right thing for patients with DVT: An update on the C-TRACT Trial (IR Quarterly, Spring 2020)
• Episode 5: The potential of C-TRACT to help PTS patients (The Kinked Wire, Jan. 29, 2020)

Note: This episode was recorded on July 22, 2023.