Benefits
Well established benefits of minimally invasive image guided IR procedures when compared to alternative treatments include the following:
- Reduced risk and hospital stay
- Shorter recovery and quicker return to work
- Reduced cost
- General Anaesthetic rarely necessary
We specialise in:
Vascular Interventional Radiology
- Thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysm endovascular repair
- Aortic dissection
- Peripheral vascular disease including acute and chronic critical limb ischaemia
- Visceral aneurysms
- Carotid artery stenting
- Arteriovenous malformations including Bleomycin Electrosclerotherapy (BEST)
- Embolisation for the management of life threatening haemorrhage
Interventional Oncology
- Percutaneous biopsy and drainage
- Cholangiography, endobiliary biopsy, drainage and stenting
- Portal and hepatic vein embolisation
- Percutaneous nephrostomy and antegrade ureteric stenting
- Microwave ablation for liver and lung cancer
- Cryoablation for renal cancer
- Liver chemoembolization (TACE)
- Inferior vena cava (IVC) filter placement
- Superior vena cava (SVC) stenting
- Gastrostomies (RIG)
- Embolisation of bronchial arteries for the management of haemoptysis
- Embolisation of benign renal angiomyolipoma (AML)
Women’s and Men’s Health Interventional Radiology
- Uterine leiomyomas (fibroids): Uterine artery embolisation
- Pelvic congestions syndrome: Ovarian vein embolisation
- Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Prostate artery embolisation
- Varicoceles: Testicular vein embolisation
- Erectile dysfunction: Internal iliac and pudendal artery angioplasty/stenting
Musculoskeletal Intervention
- Radiofrequency ablation for osteoid osteomas
- Genicular Artery Embolisation for the management of chronic knee pain
Haemodialysis Access Management
- Haemodialysis access central venous catheter placement
- Fistulography, fistuloplasty and stenting
- Thrombolysis and thrombectomy
