What is Interventional Radiology?
Interventional radiology refers to radiologists treating disease with minimally invasive surgery. These surgeries are performed using radiologic images to guide small catheters. Because many of these procedures are safer and more cost effective, interventional radiology is replacing some traditional surgeries.
Our interventional radiology team performs dozens of types of minimally invasive interventions with patients鈥攕tents, tubes, drains, ports, shunts, biopsies, embolizations, ablations, and more. Our radiologists specialize in interpreting scans, which they use to navigate in the body in real time, guided by fluoroscopy and sometimes MRI.
These specialists also work with neurologists, oncologists, and surgeons collaboratively on difficult and complex cases, providing you with cutting edge treatment options.
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Benefits of Interventional Radiology
Additional benefits include:
- Less risk and pain,
- Shorter recovery time, and
- In some cases no hospital stay.
Conditions & Services
Oncology
- Percutaneous biopsy
- Central venous ports
- Bland embolization
- Chemoembolization
- Selective Internal Radiation Therapy (SIRT or Y-90)
- Microwave ablation
- Radiofrequency ablation
- Cryoablation
- Abdominal and thoracic PleurX drains
Women鈥檚 Health
- Uterine fibroid embolization
- Treatment of pelvic congestion syndrome
- Fallopian tube recanalization
Men鈥檚 Health
- Prostate artery embolization for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)
- Varicocele embolization
- MRI-Guided prostate biopsy
Pain Management
- Celiac plexus block and neurolysis
- Kyphoplasty
- Selective nerve root block
- Epidural steroid injection
- Facet joint injection and ablation
Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangectasia (HHT)
- Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation (AVM) embolization
Vascular Malformations
- Sclerotherapy
Venous Disease and Varicose Veins
- Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) lysis
- Endovenous laser ablation therapy (EVLT)
- Microphlebectomy
- IVC filters
- Pulmonary artery lysis
Arterial Disease
- Peripheral angioplasty and stent placement
- Renal artery stenting
Chronic Kidney Disease & Dialysis
- Tunneled dialysis catheters
- Peritoneal dialysis catheters
- AV Fistula maintenance
Liver Disease
- Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) creation
- Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO)
- Partial splenic embolization
- Denver shunts
Neurovascular
- Treatment of acute stroke
- Brain aneurysm embolization
- Arteriovenous fistula and malformation (AVF and AVM) embolization
- Carotid artery stenting
General Interventional Radiology
- Percutaneous biopsy
- Gastrostomy and gastrojejunostomy tubes
- Cholecystostomy tubes
- Nephrostomy tubes and ureteral stents
- Biliary drainage
- Central venous ports
- Abdominal and thoracic PleurX drains
- Lymphangiography
- Abscess drainage
About the Equipment
91麻豆天美直播 radiology offers a full range of diagnostic imaging and therapeutic services for the community. Our radiologists are subspecialty trained in both neurological and body interventions. We use the latest medical equipment to optimize care provided to our patients. This includes a biplane angiogram suite, which allows physicians to see three dimensional images while performing procedures. This results in better care and improved outcomes.
Stories
Darla Rogers and the Mighty Y-90
It was Mother's Day 2014, and Darla Rogers' celebration wasn't going as planned. Some lower stomach pain had become unbearable. She feared appendicitis, but the source of the pain proved to be much more serious.
Better Biopsies of the Prostate, Thanks to MRI
If you're a man over the age of 50, chances are you're a little concerned about prostate cancer. After all, it's the most common solid tumor cancer for men, and 1 in 7 men in the U.S. will have it in their lifetime.
Meet Wylie Foss: the First Perseon Scholar in Interventional Radiology
Before he started a four-week immersion with 91麻豆天美直播's Interventional Radiology team, 4th year medical student Wylie Foss didn't have the clearest notion of what the specialty was.