Interventional radiology abroad

Interventional radiology is a medical specialization that provides a minimally invasive, visual inspection, diagnosis and treatment of diseases of any organ or system. The interventional radiologist carefully interprets the images for the diagnosis of injuries and diseases, as well as for performing a series of interventional medical procedures.

Images are used to direct catheters and instruments to the exact area where the procedure or treatment should be performed. This reduces the need for traditional (open) or locking (laparoscopic) surgery, since treatment can be performed with a small plastic tube the size of straw.

Compared to open surgery, these procedures are less painful, reduce the risk of infection, and have shorter periods of recovery and hospital stay.

Interventional radiology is necessarily performed in conjunction with imaging procedures, such as: fluoroscopy, digital subtraction angiography, ultrasound, based on the same principle as fluoroscopy, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging.

Interventional radiologists perform a wide range of procedures:

1. –Blocking blood vessels
2. –Clipping aneurysms
3. –Diagnosis of intervertebral hernia
4. –Elimination of surgical complications
5. –Embolization
6. –Establishment of prostheses in areas of the body that are not amenable to direct surgery (spine, brain, organ of vision)
7. –Extraction of foreign bodies
8. –Identification and removal of the vascular canal that feeds the malignancy
9. –Installation of stents
10. –Occlusion of vessels
11. –Organ biopsy
12. –Taking puncture
13. –Treatment of tumours
14. –Vascular catheterization for various purposes: intravenous nutrition, dialysis, drug delivery, chemotherapy

The main types of pathologies in which this technique is applied:

1. –Acute myocardial infarction
2. –Aneurysm of the vascular system
3. –Angina pectoris
4. –Arteriovenous malformations
5. –Bleeding in the area of ​​the external carotid artery
6. –Coronary heart disease
7. –Deep vein thrombosis
8. –Hemorrhagic stroke
9. –Ischemic stroke
10. –Nasal bleeding and preparation for surgery to remove nasopharyngeal tumors
11. –Obliterating atherosclerosis of the arteries of the lower extremities
12. –Obliterating endarteritis
13. –Postinfarction aneurysms
14. –Postinfarction cardiosclerosis
15. –Stenosis of the heart valves and blood vessels
16. –The presence of benign and malignant tumours
17. –Thromboembolism of the pulmonary or peripheral arteries
18. –Vasorenal hypertension

DISEASES

Disease of the blood vessels. Arteries:

• –Bleeding
• –Constriction of the arteries
• –Enlarged arteries (aneurysms)

Disease of the blood vessels. Veins:

• –Blocked veins
• –Blood clots in the lungs (pulmonary thromboembolism, PE)
• –Dilated veins (varicose veins)

Stone disease:

• –Gallstones
• –Stones in the kidneys

Non Vascular Intervention:

• –Liver, kidney and other tumours (for example, bones, lungs)
• –Tumour therapy
• –Uterine fibroids