title: [Annual Congress of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE-2009) September 18-21, 2009, Lisbon, Portugal].
abstract: Reviewed in the article are the proceedings of the Annual Congress of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) held on September 18-21, 2009 in Lisbon, Portugal. The Forum centred upon recent achievements in such currently important trends of interventional radiology as carotid stenting, transcatheterembolization, endovascular prosthetic reconstruction of the aorta and its branches, angioplasty of the crural arteries in diabetic foot, prevention of pulmonary artery thromboembolism, peripheral interventions on lower-limb arteries, as well as interventions on the hepatic bile ducts in mechanical jaundice, transjugular intrahepaticportosystemic shunt (TIPS) procedures, embolization ofuterine arteries in womb myoma, vertebroplasty, venous interventions, interventions in renal artery stenoses, etc.
authors.forename: V N
authors.initials: VN
authors.lastname: Shipovskiĭ
mesh_terms: D017130:Angioplasty; D002309:Cardiology; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000379:methods; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D011174:Portugal; D019919:Prosthesis Implantation; D015642:Radiology, Interventional; D012955:Societies, Medical; D015607:Stents