As medical
technology has advanced, various problems related to poor
circulation can now be treated by a physician known as an
Interventional Radiologist. Interventional Radiologists are
physicians who are specially trained to diagnose and treat
conditions using tiny, miniaturized tools, while watching their
progress on X-ray or other imaging equipment. Typically, the
interventional radiologist performs procedures through a very tiny
nick in the skin, about the size of a pencil tip.
Peripheral artery angioplasty and stenting improves circulation through clogged arteries in the arms, legs, and neck through
the use of balloons and stents, thus avoiding surgery.
Advantages of minimally invasive procedures
are:
- Smaller incisions
- Less discomfort for the patient
- Less blood loss
- Reduced risk of infection
- Quicker recovery time
- Shorter hospital stay
- Lower health care cost
Vascular interventional services provided by CorVasc
radiologists:
- Atherectomy
- Balloon angioplasty (arterial and venous)
- Carotid artery stenting/angioplasty
- Deep venus thrombosis
- Diagnostic angiography
- Diagnostic venography
- Dialysis access diagnostics and interventions
- Embolization
- Liver tumor chemo embolization
- Other tumors
- Uterine fibroid artery embolization
- Legs for Life annual screening
- National training center for carotid stenting
- Pelvic congestion syndrome-varicosity therapy
- Pulmonary arteriograms
- Renal artery angioplasty/stenting
- Thoracic aortic aneurysm endograft
- Thoracic outlet syndrome
- Thrombolysis
- Vascular stenting (arterial and venous)
- Vena cava filters
- Venous access (PICC, Hickman, Permcath, triple lumen)
- Venous sampling
- Vertebral artery stenting/angioplasty
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