Interventional Radiology

Interventional Radiology involves the use of fluoroscopy, ultrasound, CT, MRI, and endoscopy, (or combinations ) to gain access to different structures in order to deliver materials for therapeutic purposes. These procedures are minimally invasive and less painful. In addition, it offers treatment options for patients with various conditions that cannot be managed or treated with surgery, or is associated with excessive morbidity, high cost, or poor outcome. It requires multiple guide wires with various properties, catheters specifically adapted for individual procedures, stents composed of different materials and configurations, embolic coils, embolic particles, drainage devices, glue, oils, chemotherapeutic agents, occlusion devices, or balloons.

ICA is fortunate to have the equipment and expertise to perform multiple of those procedures:

Tracheoplasty (tracheal stenting)
Intrahepatic portosystemic embolization
Transarterial embolization of hepatic tumors
Urethral stenting
Embolization of arterio-venous malformations
Vascular nasal embolization of intractable epistaxis
Vascular foreign body retreival
Percutaneous nephrostomy tube placement
Antegrade placement of urinary catheter
Biliary drainage
Vascular stenting and angioplastyThrombolytic vascular procedures
Thrombolytic vascular procedures

Collapsed Trachea and Tracheoplasty: We offer a non-surgical procedure as a treatment of tracheal collapse: tracheal stent/tracheoplasty. When medical management has been unsuccessful, surgical correction, such as a tracheal ring or placement of extraluminal devices, may be offered, but complications may develop. Tracheal stenting, also called tracheoplasty, is the treatment of choice for tracheal collapse. When the patient is referred to our imaging department, the magnitude of the tracheal collapse will be evaluated under fluoroscopy, and then the appropriate stent will be deployed. The procedure provides immediate relief from dyspnea.