Interventional Radiology

Treatments

The following procedures are offered at Silver Cross Hospital by the interventional radiologists with Associated Radiologists of Joliet, S.C.

Interventional Oncology

• Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE)
• Transarterial bland embolization
• Radiofrequency ablation (RFA)
• Cryoablation
• Selective internal radiation therapy (90Y radioembolization – SIRsphere and THERAsphere) – to be offered in the near future
• Intraperitoneal ports
• Image guided biopsy
• Portal vein emblization

Venous Access Catheters

• Ports & Central line placement
• Tunneled dialysis catheters
• Temporary dialysis catheters
• Tunneled pheresis catheters
• Temporary pheresis catheters
• Hohn Catheters

Maintenance of Surgically Created Hemodialysis Access

• Fistulagram, angioplasty, venous stenting
• Fistula and graft declots

Venous Intervention/Varicose Veins

•  Inferior vena cava filter placement (retrievable and permanent varieties)
•  IVC filter removal
•  Venous thrombolysis and thrombectomy
• Venous angioplasty and stenting, including superior vena cava
• Endovenous laser vein ablation (ELVS) of greater and lesser saphenous veins for  treatment of venous insufficiency and symptomatic varicose veins.

Urologic Interventional Radiology

• Percutaneous nephrostomy
• Percutaneous nephroureteral catheters
• Percutaneous ureteral stent placement and exchange
• Ureteral stricture treatment
• Ureteral embolization

OB-GYN Interventional Radiology

• Uterine artery embolization

• Varicocele embolization
• Pelvic congestion syndrome gonadal vein embolization
• Fallopian tube recanalization
• Pre-operative arterial balloon occlusion for placenta increta/percreta

GI Interventional Radiology

• Percutaneous gastrostomy
• Percutaneous gastrojejunostomy
• Mesenteric angiograms and GI bleed embolizations
• Transjugular liver biopsies (with or without pressure measurements)
• Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts (TIPS)
• Esophageal and Gastric Variceal embolization
• Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography and biliary drainage
• Biliary stenting and plasty
• Tunneled peritoneal drainage/dialysis catheters
• Ethanol ablation of hepatic cysts

Chest Interventions

• Pleurx catheters
• Percutaneous lung biopsies
• Bronchial artery embolization

Muscular Interventions

• Balloon kyphoplasty
• Bone biopsy
   

Urgent/Emergent Intervention

• Trauma angiograms and embolizations
• Mesenteric angiogram and embolization for GI bleeding
• Angiography and embolization for post-partum hemorrhage
• Muscular Interventions
• Balloon kyphoplasty
• TIPS for variceal bleeding
• Thrombin injection for pseudoaneurysm
• Embolization of visceral organ bleed (e.g., kidney, liver, spleen, etc.)
• Coiling of visceral arterial aneurysms
• Percutaneous nephrostomy for patients who are obstructed and who require urgent decompression, either due to sepsis or due to acute decline in renal function