The Kinked Wire
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) brings you a new podcast on all the topics that impact your practice of IR, with focused subseries reflecting the broad range of the specialty. In each episode, hosts and guests discuss new clinical opportunities, practice management tips, the latest trends and developments in the specialty, and more. Learn more on sirweb.org, irq.sirweb.org, and sirweb.org/kinkedwire. If you have any ideas for topics or guests, or have any other feedback, let us know at kinkedwire@sirweb.org. For corporate support opportunities, contact SIR at jnash@sirweb.org. The views and opinions expressed in podcast episodes are not necessarily those of the Society of Interventional Radiology. The society does not endorse any companies or products.
Episodes
130 episodes
Episode 61: SIR 50th Anniversary: Growth and opportunities in interventional oncology | Guest: Dr. Michael Soulen
"... I can tell you I'd never do it again, but it showed that we can get interventional radiologists from around the world to come together and agree to do a trial, and actually execute the trial and get it done, and generate guidelines tra...
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Episode 60: SIR 50th Anniversary: The birth and growth of the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology | Guest Dr. Gary Becker
"So the American Journal of Medicine was 'the green journal' ... Radiology was 'the grey journal' ... AJR is 'the yellow journal' ... I did not want people to be able to get away with that with JVIR, because I wanted them to have to articul...
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JVIR audio abstracts: March 2025
This recording features audio versions of March 2025 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts:Safety and Effectiveness of Early Primary Stent ...
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IRQ 16: Transplant teamwork: A community hospital builds successful liver transplant program
The Piedmont Transplant Institute in Atlanta performs about 135 liver transplants each year. It’s the highest-volume liver transplant center of any nonacademic, community hospital in the United States and is among the top 10% in the nation ...
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Episode 59: SIR 50th Anniversary: From 1975 to 2025, the Evolution of the SIR Annual Scientific Meeting | Guest Dr. Ernie Ring
"The early days were necessary to get us into doing things, solving problems without the data. And then the data came afterwards to confirm that the things we were doing were worthwhile." —Ernest Ring, MD, FSIRIn this ep...
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JVIR AI audio 1: GLASS classification and patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia
In this Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) audio episode, JVIR blog Editor Peter Li, MD, MS, uses artificial intelligence (AI) platf...
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Episode 58: The potential for cryoneurolysis and interventional radiology in pain management
"Over time, that nerve regenerates. And that regenerated nerve is new, and wasn't there for the surgery, or wasn't there for the trauma. And so this is an ability to percutaneously—or through the skin with a needle—replace your damaged nerv...
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JVIR audio abstracts: February 2025
This recording features audio versions of February 2025 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts:Radiation Pneumonitis after Yttrium-90 Radioe...
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Episode 57: 2024 in review + top IR Quarterly articles and Kinked Wire podcast episodes of the year
"I think that really worked well to put the specialty where it needed to be ... but now we're competing in the space with other endovascular specialists. You know, there are a lot of people who are trying to do similar things, and I think w...
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JVIR audio abstracts: January 2025
This recording features audio versions of January 2025 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts:Effectiveness of Track Cauterization in Reduct...
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Season 5
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JVIR audio 5: Genicular artery embolization for treatment of symptomatic knee osteoarthritis
"'Hopefully this will also gain some more confidence from other IR folks that, you know, if you have an appropriate candidate, and you feel comfortable performing this procedure, that you can now say, 'Hey, this potentially can last you for...
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Episode 56: SIR 50th Anniversary: The evolution of neurointerventional radiology | Guest: Dr. David Kumpe
"At about 50 minutes into the infusion, I could feel the guy moving his hand under the drapes. At an hour, he had a normal-strength grip. I ... I can't tell you ... what a euphoric experience that was." —David Kumpe, MD, FSIR, on hi...
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JVIR audio 4: Using voxel-based dosimetry to evaluate sphere concentration and tumor dose
"'If we know activity, or sphere activity, at the time of delivery, and we know the dose to tumor, and we know the dose that we gave, we could figure out where the sphere concentrations are ... but we'd need to figure out what the dose to t...
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JVIR audio abstracts: December 2024
This recording features audio versions of December 2024 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts:Safety and Effectiveness of Large-Bore Percut...
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Episode 55: Entrepreneurship and interventional radiology: Q&A with Blockchain co-founder Nicolas Cary
"One of the things entrepreneurs screw up a lot that I see is that they spend so much time on their product idea, or the invention ... and they don't spend any time talking to customers or doing sales. And like, the most important thing you...
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Episode 54: SIR 50th Anniversary: From piles of tubing to the Waltman loop | Guest: Dr. Arthur Waltman
"The vascular surgeons had felt like, 'The patients are going to you before they come to us and ... why don't we just take you on?' And there was sort of an interest in trying to get me to join up with them, but I told them 'I'm not trained...
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JVIR audio 3: Mortality, safety and efficacy of paclitaxel-containing balloons and stents in the femoropopliteal artery
"It's not entirely unique to IR, but it's something that's encountered more because it is so fast-moving, and it's what kind of drew me into the specialty. But having done this project has given me a new perspective on the importance of goo...
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Season 5
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JVIR audio abstracts: November 2024
This recording features audio versions of November 2024 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts:Outcomes Analysis of Yttrium-90 Radioemboliza...
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IRQ audio 15: The debt question: How medical school debt relief options can benefit doctors and patients
The Association of Medical Colleges projects a shortage of 124,000 physicians by 2034. The demand for specialty physicians continues to outpace supply, especially in rural America. The causes of workforce shortages are multiple and multifac...
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Episode 53: SIR 50th Anniversary: The growth (and growing pains) of pediatric interventional radiology
"The procedures are not just vascular access and abscess drains and biopsies anymore. You know, the gamut of procedures that are done in pediatric now is ... across the board everything, practically, that is done in adult IR is done in pedi...
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JVIR audio abstracts: October 2024
This recording features audio versions of October 2024 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts:Mortality, Safety, and Effectiveness of Paclit...
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IRQ audio 14: Administrative advocacy: How to effectively negotiate with hospital administration
Facilitating change and advocating for interventional radiology in your hospital requires strong communication skills and knowing how to approach hospital administration. However, effective communication, negotiation and consensus-building ...
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Episode 52: From crisis to care: How interventional radiology saved Sebastian Junger's life
"Dr. Wilson asked my permission to put a line into my jugular ... I didn't understand why. I said, 'You mean, in case there's an emergency?' and he said "No, this ... THIS is the emergency." —Best-selling author Sebastian Junger, on...
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JVIR audio abstracts: September 2024
This recording features audio versions of September 2024 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts:Multidisciplinary Delphi Consensus on Safety...
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Episode 51: SIR 50th Anniversary: The growth of interventional radiology and vascular care | Guest: Dr. Barry Katzen
"People are only going to look at you and put you in a certain light if you look at yourself that way. If you're willing to practice like a technician, and be happy just to crank cases that come in on orders, you have to understand that you...
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