Vascular and Interventional Radiology
The Vascular and Interventional Radiologists at California Imaging Institute use their expertise in reading X-rays, ultrasound and other medical images to guide small instruments such as catheters (tubes that measure just a few millimeters in diameter), through the blood vessels or other pathways to treat disease percutaneously (through the skin). These procedures are typically much less invasive and much less costly than traditional surgery. There are many advantages to choosing Vascular and Interventional Radiology over other courses of treatment.
- Most procedures can be performed on an outpatient basis or require only a short hospital stay.
- General anesthesia usually is not required.
- Risk, pain and recovery time are often significantly reduced.
- The procedures are sometimes less expensive than surgery or other alternatives.
- Abdominal
- Bone
- Liver
- Lung
- Muscle/Soft tissue mass
- Thyroid
- Chemoembolization
- Port placement
- Radiofrequency ablation of solid tumors, and bone lesions
- Catheter placement
- Graft or fistula evaluation and angiography or declotting
- Discography
- Epidural steroid injections
- Facet injections
- Nerve ablations
- Transforaminal nerve injections
- CTA and MRA of the carotid, renal and lower extremity arteries
- Diagnostic angiography
- Endovascular repair of aneurysms (abdomen, thorax)
- Interventional procedures (angioplasty, atherectomy, stent placement)
- Groshong/Tunnel catheter
- Port placements
- PICC
- Venous varicose vein therapy
- DVT evaluation and thrombolysis
- Sclerotherapy
- TIPS (Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt placement)
- Venous stenting
- Therapeutic and diagnostic paracentesis
- Therapeutic and diagnostic thoracentesis