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What is Bead Block Indicated for?
How is Bead Block Manufactured?
What is Bead Block Tinted With?
How Much Contrast Medium?
What Happens to Bead Block Following Embolisation?
What Size of Beads for Which Indication?
Can Bead Block be Used for Chemoembolisation?
What Sizes of Bead Block are Available?
What are the Guidelines for use of Bead Block in UFE?
Which Catheters is Bead Block Compatible With?
How Durable is Bead Block Compared to Other Embolic Microspheres?
How Do I Administer Bead Block?
Is the DC Bead a device or a drug?
Can you load the beads with Cisplatin?
Can I use liquid doxorubicin?
Which studies are done or on-going with DC Beads?
What are the pharmacokinetics like? Can you prove this? What studies do you have?
Can I use Lipiodol?
Why do you load doxorubicin when it is an obsolete drug?
Why don't you sell preloaded beads?
How long can I store the beads in a refrigerator?
What are possible complications?
Which dose should be used?
Do you have papers proving results of TACE versus conventional treatment?
The studies you presented are representing small patient numbers - are they really representative?
How long will the beads stay in the arteries?
How can I extract all the saline from DC Bead vials?
Where can I get Adriblastin, Adriamycin, Doxorubicin. (HL/RD)? Pfizer stopped selling it in Germany. Germany, and Benelux are the only countries where powder doxorubicin is not available.
How long are the loaded beads sterile?
2ml injection water is too low. Doxorubicin producers suggest 10ml. What should I do?
Why does DC Bead shrink and Hepasphere expand?
Why can't I use fluorouracil?
Total life dosage is 400-450mg/m2. Using 150mg per embolistion you reach the maximum life dose quickly! What do you do then?
When should I use 100-300µm / 500-700µm, and for what indications do you use 700-900µm?
If I use 100µm-300µm will I pass through parthologic AV shunts?
How long do I have to wait for loading?
What pre-medication do you recommend?
Can I combine RF Ablation and TACE therapies?
Adriblastin (doxorubicin) HL/RD is not indicated for HCC usage! Is this off label use?
150mg dose in one dose is too much. Will it be harmful to the patient?
What do I do if I reach the end point and I don't want to give more than 50mg of drug?
What is the maximum amount of nodules you can treat in one session?
Do You Have any Pharmacokinetic Data?
What is SN38
What Dose of Irinotecan Should I Use?
Do You Recommend a Pain Management Protocol?
When Should I Repeat the Treatment?
Do You Have any DC Bead Irinotecan Clincial Publications?
How Long Can I Store the Irinotecan-Loaded Beads in a Refrigerator?
What is the Appearance of the DC Bead Irinotecan During and Following Loading?
What is Irinotecan?
How Long do I Have to Wait for Loading
What Bead Size Should I Use?
Which Patients are Suitable for Treatment With DC Bead Irinotecan?
How is the Irinotecan Loaded into DC Bead?
Do You Have any Publications Proving the Survival Data on the DC Bead Irinotecan?
What Other Studies Do You Have Planned for Irinotecan Bead Therapy?