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EMC radiologie et imagerie médicale, 2006

L'embolisation des artères utérines est une technique de radiologie interventionnelle utilisée av... more L'embolisation des artères utérines est une technique de radiologie interventionnelle utilisée avec succès depuis plus de 30 ans dans la prise en charge des hémorragies graves en contexte gynécologique ou obstétrical. Dans la prise en charge des hémorragies du post-partum, il existe à l'heure actuelle des indications précises d'embolisation, par exemple en cas d'atonie utérine résistant aux utérotoniques en particulier après un accouchement par voie basse, d'hémorragie d'origine cervico-utérine, de thrombus vaginal, ou de déchirure cervicovaginale suturée ou non accessible. L'embolisation peut également être proposée en cas d'anomalie d'insertion placentaire pour tenter d'éviter l'hystérectomie. L'embolisation constitue le traitement de première intention des malformations vasculaires congénitales ou acquises de l'utérus. L'embolisation des artères utérines est réalisée de façon plus récente pour traiter les fibromes utérins symptomatiques. L'embolisation, initialement proposée comme alternative à l'hystérectomie, peut être proposée comme alternative aux myomectomies multiples, en particulier en cas de récidive après myomectomie. Des améliorations techniques destinées à réduire les complications ischémiques utérines et ovariennes, ainsi qu'une meilleure sélection des patientes, ont permis d'étendre progressivement les indications d'embolisation. L'embolisation doit être pratiquée préférentiellement en cas de fibromes multiples, en particulier de siège interstitiel. Le fibrome sous-séreux pédiculé constitue la seule contre-indication en raison d'un risque majoré de complications. L'embolisation est efficace sur les ménorragies, mais également sur les douleurs et les symptômes liés au volume utérin. L'adénomyose associée aux fibromes paraît responsable d'un risque de récidive clinique plus élevé. La place de l'embolisation comme alternative à la myomectomie, notamment chez la femme jeune, avec désir de grossesse, porteuse de fibromes multiples, reste à définir.

Springer eBooks, 1991

Thanks to progress made in the area of microcatheters and balloons, it is now possible to conside... more Thanks to progress made in the area of microcatheters and balloons, it is now possible to consider endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms [1, 3, 7]. The ideal method consists in exclusion of the aneurysm by placing a detachable balloon inside the aneurysm pouch, while at the same time preserving the parent vessel (Fig. 1).

The rabbit Vx2 tumor is a fast-growing carcinoma model, which is commonly used to study different... more The rabbit Vx2 tumor is a fast-growing carcinoma model, which is commonly used to study different aspects of tumor behaviour under cancer treatments. The reduction of tumor viability and the degree of induced necrosis are the most common criteria to evaluate the efficacy of cancer treatments. The most recent developments in infrared microspectroscopy (IRMS) imaging aimed at automating the procedure of tissue recognition and quantification by using statistical methods and prediction algorithm. We used IRMS for the automatic characterization and quantification of the Vx2 liver tumor viability after a chemoembolization treatment. Twenty-eight rabbits with Vx2 liver tumor were included in this study: 20 rabbits were subjected to a Doxorubicin eluting beads (DEB) treatment and compared to a control (CTRL) group of 8 rabbits. The tumor bearing livers were resected, fixed in formalin and embedded in paraffin. Two adjacent sections were cut from each sample using a microtome. The first section was mounted on a calcium fluoride window suitable for IRMS imaging. The second section was put on a standard glass slide and stained with HES to serve as a control for IRMS imaging. On a first series of 14 different tumor sections (CTRL: 7 sections, DEB: 7 sections), we developed and validated a prediction algorithm. The protocol consisted of K-means (KM) clustering followed by linear discriminant analysis (LDA). The KM clustering was used to classify the spectra from the infrared images and to build a data base containing a large number of reference spectra (397.289 spectra) characteristics for tumor necrosis, viable tumor, fibrosis, liver parenchyma and liver parenchyma necrosis. Once the model validated, we empirically attributed a color for each type of tissue. Then, the predictive model was applied to infrared images of 52 new test tumor sections (CTRL: 9 sections, DEB: 43 sections). The result of the LDA model analysis is a false color image where each color corresponds to a type of tissue. The percentage of pixels corresponding to each color is automatically recorded by the LDA model. This advantage was used to calculate the mean percentage of surface occupied by each type of tissue and to determine the tumor viability after the DEB treatment. The LDA false color images reproduced the histological structures of Vx2 liver tumors. The sensitivity and specificity of the LDA model were high to 86.7% and 96.7% for the 5 tissue types respectively. For DEB group, the LDA model determined that the surface of necrotic tissue represented 77.68±23 % (CTRL group: 16.89±9 %, Mann Whitney: P<0.0001), the viable tumor 14.29±23 % (CTRL group: 74.74±7 %, MW: P< 0.0001) and fibrosis 3.89±6 % of the tumor (CTRL group: 1.1±2 %, MW: P= 0.6262). The remaining percentage corresponded to unclassified spectra (DEB group: 3.94±7 %, CTRL group: 6.40±5 %, MW: P=0.0135). Our results show that IR imaging coupled with LDA model analysis could be a helpful to easily assess tumor response. Citation Format: Hadrien D'inca, Florentina Pascale, Saida Homayra Ghegediban, Michel Wassef, Cyril Gobinet, Julien Namur, Alexandre Laurent, Michel Manfait. Fast and automated assessment of tumor response: Infrared imaging. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2014 Apr 5-9; San Diego, CA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2014;74(19 Suppl):Abstract nr 4292. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2014-4292

Biomedical spectroscopy and imaging, 2014

BACKGROUND: The rabbit Vx2 liver tumor is a fast-growing carcinoma model commonly used to study t... more BACKGROUND: The rabbit Vx2 liver tumor is a fast-growing carcinoma model commonly used to study tumor behaviours under cancer treatments. The reduction of tumor viability and the degree of induced necrosis are the common criteria to evaluate the efficacy of cancer treatments. Currently, it is not easy to perform a rapid and reproducible tissue quantification by histopathological analysis. OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to use infrared-imaging combined with linear-discriminant-analysis model (LDA) to automatically quantify the necrotic effect induced by doxorubicin-eluting-implants (DEI) on a Vx2 liver tumors model. METHODS: Three rabbits were subjected to DEI treatment and compared to a control group (CTRL) of nine rabbits. Tumor bearing livers were resected, fixed in formalin and embedded in paraffin. On two consecutive sections, we performed hematoxylin-eosin-saffron (HES) staining and infrared-imaging. Infrared-images were then subjected to the LDA-model analysis. RESULTS: The LDA and HES images strongly correlated for viable and necrotic tumor tissues. For the DEI group, the model determined that the surface of viable tumor represented 0.24 ± 5% of the tumor (CTRL: 55.71 ± 17%, P < 0.0001) and the necrotic tissue 66.46 ± 20% of the tumor (CTRL: 18.45 ± 12%, P < 0.0001). CONCLUSIONS: Our results showed that infrared-imaging coupled with LDA-model analysis could be a helpful to easily and objectively assess the treatment efficacy.

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Mar 1, 2012

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, Apr 1, 1991

Permanent selective occlusion by detachable balloons with parent vessel preservation is considere... more Permanent selective occlusion by detachable balloons with parent vessel preservation is considered to be the endovascular treatment of choice of intracranial aneurysms. It has been proposed that replacement of contrast material within the balloon with a polymerizing substance will eliminate balloon deflation. Despite this solution, our clinical experience with polyisoprene rubber balloons shows that deflation can still occur when the,balloons are filled with poly(2hydroxyethyl methacrylate). Experimental data are presented that demonstrate the chemical incompatibility between hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) and polyisoprene rubber. The resulting degradation of the polyisoprene rubber accounts well for balloon failure. The in vitro behaviour of silicone balloons and of a new HEMA sponge formulation to fill the balloons are compared.

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Mar 1, 2014

angiography performed greater than 3 weeks after the initial eTACE procedure. Results: 128 patien... more angiography performed greater than 3 weeks after the initial eTACE procedure. Results: 128 patients underwent eTACE over the defined 3 year period. Of these, 39 patients did not have subsequent imaging. The remaining 89 patients included in the study received 1-3 eTACE treatments. 7 of the 89 patients (8%) had findings consistent with arteritis on subsequent angiography. From a practical standpoint the side effect of arteritis can markedly limit the ability of superselective access on subsequent TACE procedures. In this study 5 of the 7 positive cases (71%) involved lobar or segmental vasculature proximal to the previously treated tumor site, potentially limiting the options for repeat TACE to that location. Conclusion: Given the paucity of data available on arteritis complications from TACE using a particular chemotherapeutic agent, assessing statistical significance on this finding is difficult. A comparison with the limited available data suggests that an 8% incidence of arteritis is quite high, with other studies providing incidences as low as 2%(1). Further studies comparing the incidence of arteritis complications from eTACE vs TACE with other agents is warranted and currently underway at this institution.

Biomedical Materials, 2021

In situ forming tissue adhesives based on biopolymers offer advantages over conventional sutures ... more In situ forming tissue adhesives based on biopolymers offer advantages over conventional sutures and staples in terms of biocompatibility, biodegradability, ease of application and improved patient compliance and comfort. Here, we describe the evaluation of in situ gelling hydrogel system based on dextran dialdehyde (DDA) obtained by periodate oxidization of dextran and chitosan hydrochloride (CH) as tissue adhesive. The hydrogel was prepared by reacting aldehyde functions in DDA with the amino functions in CH via Schiff’s reaction. The gelation reaction was instantaneous and took just 4 s. The DDA-CH hydrogel as tissue adhesive was evaluated on a sheep lung parenchymal injury model and a pig aortic model and was compared with the commercially available tissue sealant, Bioglue®. The DDA-CH glue could completely seal the sheep lung incision site even at inflation with air way pressure of 30 cm of H2O with no air leak observed in the incision sites (n = 8) in any of the animals. Histo...

Radiology, 1994

To test a method of nonsurgical sterilization. A hydrogel that forms an in situ plug by phase inv... more To test a method of nonsurgical sterilization. A hydrogel that forms an in situ plug by phase inversion of a polymer solution was placed into fallopian tubes of eight rabbits by means of transvaginal rabbits by means of transvaginal fluoroscopic fallopian tube catheterization. The rabbits were bred, and the presence of embryos was confirmed with palpation and at autopsy. Seven of the eight rabbits became pregnant. Six of these rabbits contained embryos in the control uterus but not in the uterus on the side of the hydrogel injection. The seventh rabbit had embryos in both uteri, but the hydrogel had been expelled. All seven tubes that contained hydrogel showed evidence of acute and chronic salpingitis and a foreign-body reaction. The tube from which hydrogel had been expelled and the eight control tubes were not inflamed. Transcervical catheter methods of tubal occlusion and sterilization are promising, but a non-reactive material is needed.

Interventional Neuroradiology, 2002

We report a case of fatal cardiovascular collapse that occurred during Ethanol sclerotherapy of a... more We report a case of fatal cardiovascular collapse that occurred during Ethanol sclerotherapy of a venous malformation in a 21-year-old woman. The malformation was located on the anterior part of the thigh. Fifty ml of a mixture of Ethanol, Ethibloc and Lipiodol containing 35 ml of Ethanol (0.52 ml / kg) were injected under fluoroscopy. A major drop in arterial pressure was recorded after release of the tourniquet placed at the thigh root. The patient died after four hours of intensive cardiac reanimation. Her blood alcohol level was 0.4 g/l one hour after the end of the intervention. The cardiac toxicity of ethanol depends more on the potential acute venous contamination than on the blood alcohol concentration. The currently admitted “safety limit” of 1 ml/kg of bodyweight for ethanol sclerotherapy of venous malformations is certainly unsafe and must be redefined.

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Journal de radiologie, 1999

European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, Oct 1, 2015

A polymer based material was developed to act as an embolic agent and drug reservoir for the trea... more A polymer based material was developed to act as an embolic agent and drug reservoir for the treatment of arteriovenous malformations (AVM) and hyper vascularized solid tumors. The aim was to combine the blocking of blood supply to the target region and the inhibition of the embolization-stimulated angiogenesis. The material is composed of an ethanolic solution of a linear acrylate based copolymer and acrylate calibrated microparticles containing nanospheres loaded with sunitinib, an anti-angiogenic agent. The precipitation of the linear copolymer in aqueous environment after injection through microcatheter results in the formation of an in-situ embolization gel whereas the microparticles serve to increase the cohesive properties of the embolization agent and to form a reservoir from which the sunitinib-loaded nanospheres are released post-embolization. The swollen state of the microparticles in contact with aqueous medium results in the release of the nanospheres out of microparticles macromolecular structure. After the synthesis, the formulation and the characterization of the different components of the material, anti-angiogenic activity was evaluated in vitro using endothelial cells and in vivo using corneal neovascularization model in rabbit. The efficiency of the arterial embolization was tested in vivo in a sheep model. Results proved the feasibility of this new system for vascular embolization in association with an in situ delivery of anti-angiogenic drug. This combination is a promising strategy for the management of arteriovenous malformations and solid tumors.

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Jun 1, 2012

Purpose: To determine whether upregulated expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)... more Purpose: To determine whether upregulated expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in VX2 cells can increase vessel density (VD) and reduce tumor necrosis. Materials and Methods: The VX2 cell line was transfected with expression vectors containing cDNA for rabbit VEGF. Stable clones producing rabbit VEGF (VEGF-VX2) were selected. VEGF-VX2 cells (n ϭ 5 rabbits) or nontransfected VX2 cells (controls; n ϭ 5 rabbits) were implanted into leg muscle of 10 rabbits. The animals were sacrificed at day 21. Tumor volume, percentage of necrosis, VD, and VEGF concentration in tumor protein extract were quantified. Results: Overexpression of VEGF by VX2 cells augmented tumor implantation efficiency 100% and favored cyst formation. The tumor volume was significantly larger for VEGF-VX2 transfected tumors versus controls (P ϭ .0143). Overexpression of VEGF in VX2 cells significantly increased the VD of the tumors (P ϭ .0138). The percentage of necrosis was reduced in VEGF-VX2 tumors versus controls (19.5% vs 38.5 %; P ϭ .002). VEGF concentration in VEGF-VX2 tumors was significantly higher than in control tumors (P ϭ .041) and was correlated with tumor volume (ϭ .883, P ϭ .012). Conclusions: The overexpression of VEGF increased tumor growth and vascularization, favored cyst formation, and reduced tumor necrosis. This new phenotype of the VX2 tumor may offer some advantages over classic models of VX2 tumor for evaluating anticancer therapies. ABBREVIATIONS ELISA ϭ enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, HCC ϭ hepatocellular carcinoma, HES ϭ hematoxylin-eosin-stain, MW ϭ Mann-Whitney U test, TUNEL ϭ TdT (terminal deoxynucleotidyl-transferase)-mediated d(UTP) (2=-deoxyuridine 5=triphosphate)-biotin nick-end labeling, VD ϭ vessel density, VEGF ϭ vascular endothelial growth factor The VX2 tumor is an anaplastic squamous cell carcinoma that developed as a result of malignant change in the cells of a Shope virus-induced skin papilloma of a domestic rabbit (1). The tumor is highly malignant, metastasizing to lymph nodes and lung and rarely to other sites (1). This carcinoma is serially transplantable in allogeneic adult rabbits; is easily implantable; and grows quickly in many organs including liver, uterus, brain, and kidney (2). Three models of tumor in large animals have been described to date: a pig model for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) induced with N,N-diethyl nitrosamine (3), a canine venereal sarcoma (4), and a model of HCC induced with a

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Apr 1, 2013

different clot types found in human thrombi and how well tPA and MBs can potentiate STBL. The deg... more different clot types found in human thrombi and how well tPA and MBs can potentiate STBL. The degree to which tPA and MBs complement each other to potentiate STBL decreases with increasing clot rigidity. tPA and MB complementation was additive for thrombin concentrations of 1-12 U/mL but became sub-additive when higher concentrations of thrombin were used to form clots.

Journal of Gynecology and Womens Health, 2017

Particles used today to occlude uterine arteries in fibroids management cannot guarantee a full a... more Particles used today to occlude uterine arteries in fibroids management cannot guarantee a full anatomical and functional recovery of these arteries as they should for women willing to conceive. New resorbable materials could constitute a serious alternative.

Imaging of Brain Metabolism Spine and Cord Interventional Neuroradiology Free Communications, 1989

The first case, a cavernous sinus meningioma diagnosed by CT scan and angiography was embolized w... more The first case, a cavernous sinus meningioma diagnosed by CT scan and angiography was embolized with particles. Followup CT scan and angiography 5 years later showed complete disappearance of the mass.

Seminars in Interventional Radiology, 2000

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Clinical hemorheology and microcirculation

We compared blood viscosity and red blood cells (RBC) disaggregation shear stress in three mammal... more We compared blood viscosity and red blood cells (RBC) disaggregation shear stress in three mammalian species (humans, pigs and sheep) before and after adding water-soluble iodinated contrast media (CM): Ioxaglate (ionic CM) and Iopromide (non ionic CM). The two CMs had a diluting effect on the blood of the three species, which resulted in a viscosity decrease at all shear rates. However, viscosity rose slightly at low shear rates (in relation to increase of RBC aggregation) and low CM concentrations (10%), regardless of the ionic or non ionic nature of the CM. The two CMs had a similar proaggregant effect in human and pig's bloods. The proaggregant effect was slightly more pronounced with the ionic CM. We concluded that the pig is more suitable than the sheep for in vivo assessment of blood/CM mixture.

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, 2014