Interventional Radiology
For many years, surgery was the only treatment available for many conditions. Today, interventional radiology treatments are first-line care for a wide variety of conditions.
Minimally invasive interventional radiology techniques are used to treat a wide variety of medical conditions. Radiologists use X-ray and other imaging technologies (MRI, CT and ultrasound) to guide small wires or catheters (thin, flexible tube) with specialized instruments to treat affected areas of the body. These procedures only require a tiny incision where the catheter is inserted into an artery, so it results in less blood loss, less pain and a quicker recovery for patients.
Minimally invasive interventional radiology procedures commonly performed at MountainView Regional Medical Center include:
- Angiography, brain, pulmonary, kidney, body, hand, leg extremity, spinal cord
- Arthrograms
- Biliary/gallbladder drainage and stenting
- Kidney drainage and stenting
- Central venous access
- Chemoembolization liver neoplasm, TACE
- Tumor embolization, head and neck, kidney, spleen, extremity, AVM
- Drainage fluid/abscess catheter placement
- Gastrostomy/gastrojejunostomy tube placement
- Hemodialysis catheter placement
- Needle biopsy, breast, marrow, thyroid, lung, body
- Port catheter placement
- Thermal tumor ablation microwave/cryotherapy
- Vascular stenting and angioplasty, thoracic, mesenteric, renal, extremity
- Thrombolysis acute DVT, mesentery, leg arterial
- TIPS (transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt)
- IVC/vena cava filter placement/removal
- Endovascular stroke therapy
- Uterine fibroid embolization