Ongoing and complete IR projects

Clinical Trials

Wrapsody

• Stent-grafts in dialysis access - first in man trial of a new product
• Ram Kasthuri

UK CAVA

• PICC line vs Portacath vs Hickman line for vascular access in cancer
• Jon Moss

Vascular

EVAR

• Comprehensive GG&C (&FV) EVAR database, 1996-2019
  • Martin Hennessy (near-complete data set, requires continual update)
  • Output includes survival, re-intervention, limb occlusion etc
  • art of SIGMA audit of EVAR practice
• Inequalities introduced by aneurysm screening
  • Saif Khan, FY2 (data collection stage)
• Sac regression after EVAR and survival
  • Jav Dhaliwal, Maz Abdelaziz (pre-data collection)
• Is EVAR worthwhile in octogenarians?
  • Martin Hennessy, (CIRSE e-poster 2019)
• National Vascular Registry ‘champions’/data entry
  • I have all the CHIs
  • Just need someone to enter the data
  • Easy audit - number of EVAR in database pre- and post-appointment of champions!)
  • Michael Ryder?
• Open surgical repair data
  • No data collection yet
  • I have spoken to Keith Hussey who would help identify cases
• Iliac bifurcation vs embolisation
  • Idea

Peripheral vascular

• Comprehensive GG&C SFA intervention database, 2016+
  • Martin Hennessy (near complete data set, requires continual update)
  • NB output yet
• Comprehensive GG&C iliac intervention database, 2012-2013
  • Callum Stove, Saif Khan (complete data set)
  • Presented (BSIR oral presentation 2019)
  • Needs wrangled (include TASC, remove CIA & EIA)
  • Needs updated to present day
• Comprehensive GG&C infra-popliteal intervention database, 2015+ (from move to QEUH)
  • Frank Yong, FY2, Alex Nath (data collection stage)
• Balloon inflation times ‘audit’
  • Alex Nath, complete & presented

Renal artery stenting

• Comprehensive GG&C database, 2009+
  • Nadir, Julia
  • Data collection stage
  • Umberto - analysis based on CORAL, ASTRAL subset

Non-vascular

IVC filters

• Comprehensive GG&C IVC filter database, 2012-2017+
  • Michael Ryder, completed to 2017
  • Needs updated to present day

Gastrostomy

• Comprehensive GG&C gastrostomy database, 2014+
  • Martin Hennessy (near complete data set, requires continual update)
  • Write up in process
• SIGMA gastrostomy audit
  • Peter Douglas, Saif Khan
  • Data collection stage

TACE

• Amount of doxorubicin given at first TACE
  • Alex Nath
  • Ongoing

Prostate artery embolisation

• Comprehensive GG&C database
  • Umberto Pisano

Fibroid embolisation

• Imaging assessment of fibroid pre- and post-embolisation correlated with clinical outcome
  • Andy Christie, Jeremy (med student)
  • SIGMA

Post-procedure instructions

• Survey of advice given to patients post-procedure
  • Nadir
  • Planning stage
  • Worth pursuing?

Colonic stents

• Comprehensive GG&C colonic stent database, 2010-2018?
  • Peter Douglas, completed
  • Should be presented at surgical meeting
  • Could be updated continually
  • BSIR/CIRSE 2020

Consent

• Patient questionnaire about what is material risk
  • Peter Douglas
  • Formal research submission made (& accepted) but never started

TIPSS

• Repeat audit of Alfie Tan’s data (was up to 2015)
  • Melios Philippou, Patrick?
  • Data not pulled from CRIS yet
  • Timeline - 6 months

Trans-jugular liver biopsies

• Comparison vs transcutaneous, outcomes & complications etc
  • Ram Kasthuri
  • Idea

Vascular access

Cepahalic arch stent-grafting vs angioplasty

• Long term outcome, perhaps anatomical classification
  • Umberto Pisano

US vein mapping

• Umberto Pisano

HeRO grafts

• Three and five year outcomes
  • Ram Kasthuri
  • Idea

Portacaths in CF patients

• Demographics, complications etc
  • Ram Kasthuri
  • Idea

Sharp re-canalisation

• Case series of all procedures
  • Callum Stove, Ram Kasthuri
  • Collected and presented (BSIR) up to late-2018

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