Interventional Radiology (IR) procedures usually involve guiding a needle into the body using ultrasound or CT and accessing a particular organ (liver, kidney, stomach etc) or a vessel (artery or vein), then guiding a wire and catheter through the needle into that area. Using a real-time x-ray camera, the wire and catheter can then be guided through the body to perform whatever procedure is required.
The following pages describe a variety of IR procedures which can be found under the main subgroups:
Vascular Intervention (Arterial) Angioplasty/Stenting Acute Arterial Catheter Directed Thrombolysis Uterine Artery Embolisation - for Uterine Fibroids Prostate Artery Embolisation - For Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy (BPH) Embolisation for Post-Partum Bleeding Embolisation for Gastrointestinal Bleeding Embolisation for Trauma Endovascular Aneurysm Repair (EVAR)
Vascular Intervention (Venous) Varicocoele Embolisation Long Term Venous Access Arterio-Venous Fistuloplasty Thrombolysis Thrombectomy Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS) Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) Filters
Non-Vascular Intervention Nephrostomy & Ureteric Stent Percutaneous Transhepatic Cholangiogram (PTC) Radiologically Inserted Gastrostomy (RIG) Vertebroplasty Image Guided Biopsies Image Guided Drains Cholecystostomy Cholecysto-duodenal Stenting (a.k.a GUPTAS procedure)
Interventional Oncology Percutaneous Tumour Ablation Portal Vein Embolisation (PVE) Pre-Operative Tumour Embolisation Trans-Arterial Chemo-Embolisation (TACE)
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