Interventional Radiology is minimally invasive, image-guided surgery. Interventional Radiologists use x-rays, MRI and other imaging modalities to navigate small instruments, like catheters, through blood vessels and organs to treat a variety of diseases. There are many benefits to having on IR procedure in lieu of traditional surgery: IR procedures are less painful, less invasive, safer, and there is less recovery time. RADS Interventional Radiologists are highly trained experts in minimally invasive medical procedures and interpretation of imaging techniques.
RADS recognizes that the Interventional Radiology (IR) subspecialty has contributed to some of the most significant medical developments in recent years so we have greatly expanded our IR team and IR services offered.
This procedure requires no special preparation.
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Vascular acces
•Tunneled central venous catheter placement
•Chest Port placement
•Vascular access management, including catheter or port exchange and removal
Dialysis access
•AV graft/fistula thrombolysis, thrombectomy with or without venous angioplasty and stent placement
•Tunneled dialysis catheter placement and management, including catheter exchange and removal
•Percutaneous AV fistula creation with Bard WavelinQ
Urological interventions
•Nephrostomy tube placement
•Nephroureteral stent placement
•Tube/stent management, including exchange and removal
•Percutaneous access for renal stone removal/retrieval, in conjunction with Urologist
•Ureteroplasty
Gastrointestinal interventions
•Gastrostomy tube placement
•Gastrojejunostomy tube placement
•Biliary drainage and stent placement
•Tube management, including exchange and removal
Caval filter
•Inferior vena cava filter insertion
•Inferior vena cava filter retrieval
Arteriography
•Aorta (thoracic and abdominal)
•Extremity (upper and lower)
•Visceral (celiac, SMA and IMA)
•Renal
•Carotids and intracranial
•Vascular access
Angioplasty and stent placement
•Upper and lower extremities (PAD)
•Renal arteries
•Superior mesenteric artery
Embolizations
•Traumatic hemorrhage
•Postpartum hemorrhage
•GI bleed
•Pre—operative vessel occlusion
•Hemoptysis, Bronchial artery
Thrombolysis
•Arterial (bypass grafts...etc.)
•Venous, DVT and PE
Transjugular biopsy
•Liver
Spinal interventions
•Kyphoplasty
•Spinal bone biopsy
Oncologic interventions
•Hepatic chemoembolization
•Stenting of malignant strictures
Women's health
•Uterine fibroids embolization
•Selective salpingography for infertility
Men’s health
•Varicocele embolization
Transjugular interventions
•Trans-Intrahepatic Portosystemic shunt (TIPS)
•Variceal embolization
This procedure requires no special preparation.
Please inform the staff if there is any possibility of Pregnancy at the time of scheduling your appointment.
RADS IR program uses advanced new techniques as they become available. One of these, the Bard WavelinQ EndoAVF System, has recently been approved by the FDA. WavelinQ provides a groundbreaking, minimally invasive and cost effective method to create a percutaneous arteriovenous (AV) fistula for hemodialysis access in patients with End-Stage Renal Disease. The system enables physicians to percutaneously access the proximal radial artery in the forearm to create an AV fistula. Under high frequency ultrasound guidance, the WavelinQ System uses a novel outer access cannula, guidewire and vessel capture construct that creates a connection of the vein to the artery using an intravascular approach. A select amount of low power thermal energy is used to cut the walls of the vessels and fuse the tissue, creating an in-vivo anastomosis without leaving any foreign material (including sutures) in the resulting AV fistula. The use of thermal energy has been successfully used in other vessel sealing applications with results equal to or better than traditional suturing methods. The WavelinQ System transforms a commonly performed surgical procedure into a minimally invasive procedure that leaves the vasculature around the AVF site undisturbed. As a result, WavelinQ significantly lowers the costs of creating an AV fistula while eliminating the need to create difficult surgical vessel anastomoses.
This procedure requires no special preparation.
Please inform the staff if there is any possibility of Pregnancy at the time of scheduling your appointment.
One of RADS core principles is to bring University-level quality and new techniques to areas that are far from the big city. In order to receive state-of-the-art care, many of our patients face a 4 hour round-trip drive to the nearest University medical center. The long commute is often insurmountable for the elderly and patients with long-term illness. This is especially true for patients with kidney failure, who are burdened with multiple weekly doctor, clinic and lab visits. The closer these services are to home, the better.
With this in mind, RADS has the honor of announcing the official launch of the Endo AVF program at San Joaquin General Hospital on August 20, 2020. Dialysis patients* living in San Joaquin county can now benefit from this minimally invasive procedure and avoid surgery.
*Note that this procedure has very specific applications that will apply to a subset of patients.
This procedure requires no special preparation.
Please inform the staff if there is any possibility of Pregnancy at the time of scheduling your appointment.
To leverage advanced medical imaging guidance in providing patients with less-invasive, innovative, evidence-based, and safer alternatives to surgery.
This procedure requires no special preparation.
Please inform the staff if there is any possibility of Pregnancy at the time of scheduling your appointment.
"Interventional radiology procedures offer reduced risk, pain, and recovery time.
Our interventional radiologists are at the forefront of clinical advances and use the latest image-guided technologies. We are board-certified physicians who are trained in both diagnostic radiology and minimally invasive therapies.
We pride ourselves in bringing techniques developed at large university medical centers to our local communities. We will answer any questions you may have before, during and after the procedure. RADS policy of Humancare™ means that the patient comes first."
This procedure requires no special preparation.
Please inform the staff if there is any possibility of Pregnancy at the time of scheduling your appointment.
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