TBHC's Interventional Radiology program uses X-rays and other diagnostic images to guide catheters and tiny instruments through blood vessels or skin to the site of illness. This nonsurgical treatment often results in less pain, less time in recovery and less scarring (if any). Most interventional radiology procedures require only light intravenous sedation and patients usually go home the same day.
Common Treatments
Women's health
- Uterine fibroid embolization (UFE)
- Pelvic congestion syndrome for infertility and pain
- Varicose vein sclerotherapy
Men's health
- Prostate artery embolization (PAE) for enlarged prostate
- Varicocele embolization for infertility and pain
Peripheral vascular and aortic disease
- Peripheral arterial disease
- Aortic dissection repair
- Renovascular hypertension
- Mesenteric artery diseases for chronic abdominal pain
Interventional oncology (for cancer)
- Port placement for chemotherapy
- Biopsy
- Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE)
- Microwave ablation of liver, kidney and lung cancer
Venous disease
- Dialysis intervention
- IVC filter retrieval
Joint disease
- Arthritis embolization for joint pain
