The primary aim of our study was to compare the need for periinterventional on-demand analgesia when water for injection (WFI) was replaced with glucose 5% (G5) for 90 Y-resin microsphere administration. Methods: Forty-one patients who received 77 radioembolization procedures with G5 (2014-2015) were retrospectively matched with 41 patients (77 radioembolization procedures) who received radioembolization with WFI (2011WFI ( -2014 at our center. The need for on-demand pain medication was chosen as an objective and accessible measure of periprocedural pain experienced by patients. Results: Patients were well matched according to sex, age, tumor type and involvement, and prior antiangiogenic therapies. Periinterventional analgesic requirements were significantly lower for radioembolization procedures performed with G5 than WFI: 5 of 77 (6.5%) versus 29 of 77 (37.7%), P # 0,001, respectively. Early stasis (defined as slowed antegrade flow, before total vascular stasis) occurred in 12 of 154 (7.8%) radioembolization procedures overall and was not different (P # 0.229) between the 2 groups (4/77 [5.2%] vs. 8/77 [10.4%]). Conclusion: Slow pulsatile administration of 90 Y-resin microspheres with WFI is associated with a low rate of stasis. Replacement of WFI with G5 significantly reduces the need for periprocedural analgesia. These data favor the use G5 for 90 Y-resin microsphere implantation in daily practice.Key Words: radioembolization (RE); water for injection (WFI); glucose 5% (G5); peri-procedural analgesia; stasis rate J Nucl Med 2016; 57:1679-1684 DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.115.170779Ast he documented incidence of primary and metastatic liver cancers increases (1,2), treatments using minimally invasive techniques are becoming more common. Radioembolization with 90 Y-resin microspheres is a blood flow-directed therapy enabling intraarterially infused microscopic microspheres (median diameter, 32.5 mm) to lodge within the terminal arteries close to the liver tumors, without passing through the capillary bed (diameter, #7-10 mm) and hence avoiding systemic effects. As observed in explanted whole livers, clusters of 90 Y-resin microspheres gradually assemble after administration and reduce the terminal blood flow but without stopping it completely (3).The dual blood supply of the liver enables the selective treatment of hepatic malignancies via the blood supply-mainly from the hepatic artery-whereas the normal liver parenchyma is perfused mostly by the portal circulation (4). Consequently, a high radiation dose can be delivered safely and effectively to primary and secondary liver tumors by radioembolization, with relative sparing to normal liver tissue (5-10). Radioembolization has been evaluated as both a first-line therapy (11,12) and in the salvage setting for chemoresistant/refractory metastatic colorectal cancer (13-16) and is a recommended salvage treatment by the clinical practice guidelines of the European Society of Medical Oncology (17). Radioembolization has also been extensively evaluated in hepatocellular ca...