Our interventional radiologists provide numerous minimally invasive image guided procedures to treat a wide variety of conditions including:
Prostate Artery Embolization (PAE)
Small catheters through groin or wrist artery access are used to deliver blood blocking material to the arteries supplying the prostate gland.
Decreasing blood flow to the prostate decreases the size of the gland and improves lower urinary tract symptoms related to benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Most people return to work/normal daily activities within a few days.
Uterine Artery Embolization (UAE)
Minimally invasive therapy for treatment of symptomatic uterine fibroids, especially for heavy menstrual cycle bleeding.
Small catheters through groin or wrist access are used to deliver blood blocking material to the arteries supplying the uterus.
Most people return to work/normal daily activities within a few days.
Kyphoplasty/Vertebroplasty
Minimally invasive treatment for back pain after an acute thoracic or lumbar spine fracture.
Needles are inserted into the fractured vertebra and cement is injected into the bone stabilizing fracture fragments and relieving pain.
Lower Extremity Deep Vein Thrombectomy/thrombolysis
A blood clot causing a blockage in a leg vein or deep pelvic/abdominal vein can be mechanically removed with a device (thrombectomy), dissolved with medication thrombolysis), or a combination approach can be used.
Lower Extremity Arterial Revascularization
Blood flow can be restored by crossing a narrowing or blockage in a leg artery with a catheter and stretching the artery open with a balloon, placing a stent, or shaving away plaque with a device (atherectomy). The therapy is done to improve leg pain while walking (claudication) or to promote wound healing caused by insufficient arterial blood flow to the legs/feet.
These therapies can all be performed through small catheter access in groin arteries with short recovery times
Interventional Oncology
Image guided minimally invasive microwave ablation and cryoablation of liver and renal tumors
Catheter directed chemoembolization and Yttrium-90 radioembolization of liver tumors