Expanding
Interventional
Radiology

Interventional radiology uses various imaging techniques to guide the insertion of minute instruments and perceptive tools throughout the body to identify and treat medical disorders without requiring conventional surgery. It offers an alternative to the surgical treatment of many conditions and can eliminate the need for hospitalization. A vast variety of procedures are performed by interventional radiologists including: angiography, inserted gastrostomy tubes, vertebroplasty, needle biopsy, blood clot filters, injection of clot-lysing agents, catheter insertions, and cancer treatment.


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A procedure intended to enlarge the lumen of a sclerotic coronary artery by using a balloon-tipped catheter inserted through the skin and into the chosen vessel and then quided under fluoroscopy through the lumen of the vessel to the site of the lesion. The creation of an opening into the stomach, most likely done to provide for further administration of food and liquid when stricture of the esophagus or other conditions make swallowing impossible. A hollow needle with an inner needle that detaches tissue for biopsies and brings it to the surface of the lumen. IVC (Inferior Vena Cava) filters help prevent clots such as DVT (Deep Venous Thrombosis) that break off and move (now called emboli), going to the lung resulting in pulmonary embolus (PE). A new procedure designed to treat local pain originating from a compression fracture involving a vertabral body of the spine with an injection of a fluid by a needle through a small skin incision and molding or surgically forming it. Destruction or decomposition of a clot; essentially the break up of a clot. There are different types of agents, such as retavase, and different ways to inject it. Inserting a tubular, flexible instrument passed through body channels for withdrawal of fluids from, or the introduction of fluids into, a body cavity. Radiation therapy is the use of ionizing radiation to deliver an optimal dose of radiation to a particular area of the body with minimal damage to normal tissue. The source can be either from outside the body (external radiation), or it may be an isotope that has been implanted into abnormal tissue; chemotherapy is treating an illness, such as cancer, by chemical means, i.e. medication, and bone marrow transplant is intravenous infusion of bone marrow. Used to treat malignancies such as leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma and selected solitary tumers as well as some non-malignant conditions as aplastic anemia. Minimally invasive procedure that blocks the arteries supplying blood to the fibroids using tiny particles injected through a small catheter to shrink the fibroids, relieve pelvic pain and to stop heavy bleeding associated with fibroids.