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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…
Episodes
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Live from Nashville, it's SIR 2025: Sunday, March 30
During the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting, visit the SIR Today website each day for session previews and recaps…
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Live from Nashville, it's SIR 2025: Saturday, March 29
During the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting, visit the SIR Today website each day for session previews and recaps…
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JVIR audio abstracts: April 2025
This recording features audio versions of April 2025 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: Adverse Events After Percutaneous…
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Episode 62: SIR 50th Anniversary: The birth of a powerhouse app
"... I had a call from my section chief, and he says, 'Hey—I don't want to freak you out or anything, but you know that website you created? SIR is going to…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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) platforms…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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JVIR audio abstracts: August 2024
This recording features audio versions of August 2024 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: Safety and Effectiveness of…
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JVIR audio abstracts: July 2024
This recording features audio versions of July 2024 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: Comparison of Clinical Effectiveness and…
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JVIR audio abstracts: June 2024
This recording features audio versions of June 2024 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: Virtual Reality for the Management of…
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JVIR audio abstracts: May 2024
This recording features audio versions of May 2024 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: Prediction of Mortality and Hepatic…
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Live from Salt Lake City, it's SIR 2024: Tuesday, March 26
During the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting, visit the SIR Today website each day for session previews and recaps…
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Live from Salt Lake City, it's SIR 2024: Monday, March 25
During the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting, visit the SIR Today website each day for session previews and recaps…
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JVIR audio abstracts: April 2024
This recording features audio versions of April 2024 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: Genicular Artery Embolization: A Review…
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Live from Salt Lake City, it's SIR 2024: Sunday, March 24
During the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting, visit the SIR Today website each day for session previews and recaps…
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Live from Salt Lake City, it's SIR 2024: Saturday, March 23
During the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting, visit the SIR Today website each day for session previews and recaps…
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Episode 50: Panel discussion with the Women in Interventional Radiology Champion Award winners
"There's no Men in IR Section, because they don't ... need it. Someday we're not going to need a Women in IR Section, but we do now. And it's great that it's…
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Episode 49: Owning success: What journal editors wish authors and reviewers knew
There is a shift in academic medicine—academic radiology. We don't necessarily have the soft research time that we had before. The clinical demands are so…
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JVIR audio abstracts: March 2024
This recording features audio versions of March 2024 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: Transarterial Embolization of Simple…
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Episode 48: Unlocking radiology's potential: The synergy between interventional and diagnostic radiology
Many people are sort of viewing it as an either/or—either you have an OBL or you're tied to a diagnostic department. And from my perspective, it's like …
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JVIR audio abstracts: February 2024
This recording features audio versions of February 2024 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: Radiation Major Hepatectomy Using…
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Sound of IR 3: VIR Legend Mr. John Abele
In this episode, which was first published in 2023 on the Sound of IR podcast as part of its VIR Legends series, hosts Eric Cyphers, MS3, and Subhash Gutti…
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JVIR audio abstracts: January 2024
This recording features audio versions of January 2024 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: Association between End-Stage Renal…
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Episode 47: 2023 in review + top IR Quarterly articles and Kinked Wire podcast episodes of the year
In a special year-end review, interventional radiologists Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR, Jaimin Shah, MD, Roger Tomihama, MD, Marty Radvany, MD, FSIR, and Sudhen…
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JVIR audio abstracts: December 2023
This recording features audio versions of December 2023 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: Sclerotherapy of Venous…
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Episode 46: Research forum 1: Y-90 and brain cancer, irreversible electroporation, and more
In this episode, which was first presented as an SIR Foundation lunch and learn on Oct. 27, 2023, researchers Sasicha Manupipatpong, MD, and Govind…
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Episode 45: Pearls and pitfalls of biodesign in interventional radiology
"The reality is, and the catchy way to remember it is, 'If it needs a sign, it's bad design.' You see a teakettle, and you immediately know how to use it. "…
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JVIR audio abstracts: November 2023
This recording features audio versions of November 2023 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: Added Value of Cone-Beam CT to…
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Sound of IR 2: VIR Legend Dr. David Kumpe
In this episode, which was first published in 2022 on the Sound of IR podcast as part of its VIR Legends series, host Eric Cyphers spoke with David Kumpe, MD…
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Episode 44: Research findings on IVC filters
"The primary safety and primary efficacy endpoints—which were preset in consideration with the FDA and all the societies—were met. You look at what we did…
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JVIR audio abstracts: October 2023
This recording features audio versions of October 2023 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: Research Consensus Panel Follow-up…
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JVIR audio abstracts: September 2023
This recording features audio versions of September 2023 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: An Interim Analysis of the First…
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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…
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IRQ audio 13: The internship year: An overview of options
The IR-in-training has a number of options to consider for their internship year. Although most program directors recommend surgery, a significant number of…
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JVIR audio abstracts: August 2023
This recording features audio versions of August 2023 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: Percutaneous Cryoablation of…
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Sound of IR 1: VIR Legend Dr. Stanley Baum
"I remember the first case ever referred to us: It was a young patient who was riding on a motorcycle. He crashed and ruptured his pelvis. He was bleeding out…
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JVIR audio abstracts: July 2023
This recording features audio versions of July 2023 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: Short-Term Effects of Genicular Artery…
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Episode 42: Pros and cons of practice settings in interventional radiology
I was literally at parade rest, in front of the chairman of the department, the colonel, and they want me to do mammo. I said, "I haven't done mammo in quite…