Vascular and Interventional Radiology is the operating room of the Radiology department. Interventional radiologists specialize in minimally invasive, image-guided procedures to treat tumors, biopsy internal organs,open blocked arteries and veins, drain abscesses and fluid collections, and treat many other conditions and disorders. Interventional radiologists also diagnose vascular pathology utilizing noninvasive CT angiography studies that produce revolutionary three-dimensional images of vessels within the body. Primary care physicians, hospitalists and specialists refer patients to interventional radiologists to provide these interventional procedures in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
Procedures
- Abscess drain
- Angioplasty/stem placement
- Arteriograms/angiograms
- Celiac ganglion ablation or block
- Chest tube placement
- Cholecystostomy (gallbladder drain)
- Dialysis graft
- AV shunt/fistulagram/declots
- Drainage catheter placement
- Gastrostomy/ gastrojejunostomy tube placement
- Image-guided biopsies
- Intravascular retrieval of foreign body
- IVC filter placement and retrieval
- Ovarian vein embolization
- Paracentesis
- Percutaneous cholangiogram and biliary drainage catheter placement
- Percutaneous nephrostomy
- Port-a-Cath® placement and check
- Portal venous embolization
- Radiofrequency tumor ablation (liver, kidney, lung, musculoskeletal)
- Spinal steroid injection
- Thoracentesis
- Thrombolytic therapy
- Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) for liver tumors
- Transjugular liver biopsy
- Tunneled and non-tunneled hemodialysis catheters
- Ureteral stent placement
- Uterine artery/fibroid embolization
- Varicocoele embolization
- Vascular embolization (trauma, tumor, vascular malformations)
- Vertebral augmentation (vertebroplasty/kyphoplasty)
- Venograms
- Venous sampling
- Yttrium-90 (Y90) radioembolization for liver tumors
Location Information
The Interventional Radiology Special Procedures Suite is located within the Imaging department on the 1st floor of Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital.
To schedule a procedure, call (713) 456-5100, option #2, then option #2.