DEPT OF VASCULAR & ONCO INTERVNETIONS INTRODUCATION

 

DEPT  OF VASCULAR & ONCO INTERVENTIONS

Vascular and Onco Interventional radiology or interventional radiology is a specialized field within radiology. In interventional radiology, doctors not only interpret your medical images, but they also perform minimally invasive surgical procedures through small incisions in the body.

 

What is Vascular & Onco Interventional Radiology?

 

In interventional radiology (also called IR), doctors use medical imaging to guide minimally invasive surgical procedures by simple iv cannula kind of access into the body like in cardiac angiogram that diagnose, treat, and cure many kinds of conditions ranging from simple biopsies, fibroid embolization, varicose laser treatment to complex cancer treatments and control emergency bleeding.

 

DID YOU KNOW?

 

INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES CAN BE RELATIVELY LESS EXPENSIVE, LESS RISKY, LESS PAINFUL, SHORTER HOSPITAL STAY, FASTER RECOVERY AND HIGHY SUCCESSFUL THAN TRADITIONAL SURGERIES.

Interventional radiologists make small incisions, usually in your hand or groin as like an i.v saline line placement, and use needles and catheters to treat conditions inside your body. Medical images are used to guide their catheters through your blood vessels, arteries, and organs. Cool, right?

The procedure room is cool where you would be able to see Dr working, and seeing the live images on TV monitors as most of the procedures will not require general anesthesia at all. Just local anesthesia would do to keep you absolutely pain-free.

 

Why Interventional Radiology?

 

Interventional radiology reduces cost, recovery time, pain, and risk to patients who would otherwise need traditional open surgery. Because of this, IR has become the primary way to treat many types of conditions.

Most IR treatments are minimally invasive alternatives to open and laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery. As many IR procedures start with passing a needle through the skin to the target it is sometimes called pinhole / iv cannula kind of technique !

The essential skills of an interventional radiologist are in diagnostic image interpretation and the manipulation of needles and the use of fine catheter tubes and wires to navigate around the body under imaging control. Interventional radiologists are doctors who are trained in radiology and interventional therapy.

The range of conditions which can be treated by IR is enormous and continually expanding. right from image guided percutaneous procedures, neuro interventions, peripheral vascular procedures, and onco interventional procedures.

Well recognised advantages of these minimally invasive techniques include reduced risks, shorter hospital stays, lower costs, greater comfort, quicker convalesence and return to work. The effectiveness of treatment is often be better than with traditional treatments.

 

Vascular interventions in IR

 

BASICALLY IR HAS ACCESS TO ALL THE ORGANS IN THE BODY THROUGH VASCULAR CHANNELS. HENCE ANY PROBLEM OR ANY DISEASE OR ABNORMALTY IN THE BODY CAN BE ACCESSED AND CAN BE MANAGED ACCORDINGLY. INCLUDING:

  •  VARICOSE VEINS LASER / GLUE TREATMENT
  • UTERINE FIBROID EMBOLIZATION
  • VARICOCELE EMBOLIZATIO
  • PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL ANGIOPLASTY
  • EMERGENCY BLEED EMBOLIZATION
  • HCC LIVER LESION MANAGEMENT
  • PEDIATRIC INTERVENTIONS
  • PAIN MANAGEMENT
  • DVT THROMBOLYSIS
  • IVC FILTER PLACEMENT
  • IMAGE GUIDED PERCUTANEOUS PROCEDURES
  • ONCOLOGY INTERVENTIONS

Interventional Radiology for Cancer

 

Interventional radiology helps with cancer in a number of ways. It can directly treat the disease, prevent bleeding during surgery, and ease pain and cancer treatment side effects. Your doctor can use interventional radiology to put cancer-killing therapies like chemotherapy and radioactive medicines directly onto tumors and cancer cells.

Doctors can also kill tumors or cancer cells by heating them up with radio waves or electric currents, or freezing them with ice crystals. At the same time that they are treating the tumor, they can cut off blood flow to it as a second way of damaging tumors and cancer cells.

Interventional radiologists can also treat side effects of cancer treatment like blood clots and fluid buildup in your body.

Benefits of Interventional Radiology in cancer treatment

 

Interventional radiology does two important things at once. It lets your doctor get direct access to the part of your body that needs treatment. It also makes it less likely that you’ll get risky side effects from treatment or surgery.

This is especially important in cancer treatment with radioactive particles or chemotherapy, strong treatments that can damage healthy parts of you when they are sent through your whole body. Interventional radiology lets doctors put these treatments directly on tumors and not on the healthy tissue around them WITHOUT SIDE EFFECTS AS IN TRADITIONAL CHEMOTHERAPY TREATMENT

Another benefit is that with an interventional radiology procedure, you often don’t need to stay overnight in a hospital.

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