Interventional Radiology
Interventional radiology is a sub-specialty of radiology which utilises image-guided procedures in order to diagnose and/or treat diseases using the least invasive techniques. A significant number of medical conditions that once required surgery can now be treated by interventional radiology techniques offering reduced physical trauma, less pain and recovery time thus reducing hospital stay.
About us
We are an internationally renowned tertiary referral interventional radiology centre providing a broad range of minimal invasive image guided procedures covering almost all aspects of both vascular and non-vascular interventional radiology. The department with the collaboration of the vascular surgery team has one of the largest aortic stent grafting programmes in the country, encompassing EVAR, emergency EVAR and fenestrated grafts.
Other areas of special interest in the department are; peripheral occlusive arterial disease, image guided biopsies, spine intervention (vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty), renal intervention, vascular intervention (embolisation - fibroids, PPH, trauma, prostatic artery embolisation, GI bleeding, carotid stenting), interventional oncology (tumour ablation, stenting of tracheo-bronchial tree, GI dilatation and stenting, and biliary intervention) and paediatric vascular and non-vascular interventions.
Patient
Interventional radiology is offered at both of our hospitals by appointment only. Please remember to check your appointment letter before you come for your scan.
Our interventional radiology team offer a number of services.
Percutaneous biopsy and drainages
Image-guided biopsies, thoracic and complex abdominal drainages, percutaneous nephrostomy, percutaneous biliary drainage and stenting, image-guided gastrostomy and gastrojejunostomy, ureteral stenting, percutaneous cholecystostomy.
Central venous access
Subcutaneous Port-A-Cath, PICC lines, temporary central catheters, permanent tunneled hemodialysis catheters, tunneled Hickman lines.
Arteriovenous shunts interventions
Hemodialysis grafts thrombectomy, central venous angioplasty, fistula thrombolysis and angioplasty, hemodialysis lines, immature fistula salvage interventions.
Peripheral angioplasty
Renal, visceral, iliac, femoropopliteal, infrapopliteal and pedal angioplasty, subintimal angioplasty, infrainguinal and infrapopliteal - BTK angioplasty with drug-eluting balloons and drug-eluting stents, catheter-directed thrombolysis, Angiojet thrombectomy catheter directed thrombo-aspiration, CO2 angiography and angioplasty.
Tumor ablation
Liver/kidney/lung radiofrequency or microwave ablation.
Aortic interventions
EVAR, TEVAR, fenestrated and branched grafts including rupture aneurysms and acute aortic dissections.
Venous interventions
IVC filter insertion and removal, varicocele embolization, Angiojet thrombectomy, catheter-directed thrombolysis, pulmonary thrombectomy/thrombolysis, venous angioplasty and stenting.
Miscellaneous vascular and non-vascular procedures
Gastro-duodenal stenting, uterine fibroid embolization, embolization i.e. for hemorrhage or trauma, sclerotherapy for malformation treatment.
Paediatric interventions
Subcutaneous Port-A-Cath, temporary central catheters, permanent tunneled hemodialysis catheters, tunneled Hickman lines peripheral and central-tunneled PICC lines, esophageal dilatation, percutaneous nephrostomies and ureteric stents, percutaneous drainage procedures, conversion of percutaneous gastrostomy to jejunostomy, renal angioplasty, sclerotherapy for malformations).
