Dr. Lawrence "Rusty" Hofmann Featured in AuntMinnie.com

Posted 10:18 AM, February 05, 2008, by jaruiz

Rusty Hofmann, MD, chief of interventional radiology, was recently featured in an AuntMinnie.com article by Edward Susman, "Imaging Set to Play Pivotal Role for Delivering Molecular Therapeutics." The article is based on Dr. Hofmann's presentation at the 2008 International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET) meeting in which he highlighted the importance of imaging in molecular therapeutics: "In human trials, there is no way to monitor the appropriate site to inject the drugs, to monitor delivery of the drugs, to monitor how the drugs traffic in the body, and no way to monitor how those drugs engraft." The injection of molecular agents in combination with imaging guidance can help resolve these problems by improving drug delivery. For the full text of "Imaging Set to Play Pivotal Role for Delivering Molecular Therapeutics," please access http://www.auntminnie.com/print/print.asp?sec=sup&sub=adv&pag=dis&ItemId=79852&d=1.

ISET celebrated its 20th anniversary at the 2008 conference in Hollywood, Florida. Attended by leaders in interventional cardiology, interventional radiology, and vascular specialties, this conference provides the most current noninvasive techniques for the diagnosis and treatment of vascular diseases through live case demonstrations. Conference presentations included ground-breaking research on topics such as gender differences in the endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms; outpatient uterine fibroid embolizations; the benefits of treating pregnant women who have DVT; and the use of anti-platelet therapy to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in PAD patients.