Interventional radiologists are board-certified physicians who specialize in minimally invasive, targeted treatments. They offer the most in-depth knowledge of the least invasive treatments available coupled with diagnostic and clinical experience across all specialities. They use X-rays, MRI and other imaging to advance a catheter in the body, usually in an artery, to treat at the source of the disease internally. As the inventors of angioplasty and the catheter-delivered stent, which were first used in the legs to treat peripheral arterial disease, interventional radiologists pioneered minimally invasive modern medicine.
Today many conditions that once required surgery can be treated less invasively by interventional radiologists. Interventional radiology treatments offer less risk, less pain and less recovery time compared to open surgery.
Radiology is developing and deploying a unique and novel combination of imaging, therapeutic and navigation technologies which together make up the Multimodality Interventional Radiology.
Interventional Radiology (I.R) is at the cutting edge of modern medicine and has brought significant improvements in inpatient care. IR procedures are more convenient for patients as they are done mostly outpatient basis with small incisions (Minimally Invasive) causing less pain, less scarring and less disfigurement and with shorter recovery time.
We request you to include Interventional Radiology in your regular protocol and refer the suitable patients. We promise we will take utmost care of your patients and deliver the positive results.
We can work together for the benefit of the patient to deliver the best results possible.
Various procedures in interventional radiology
Diagnostic
- FNAC
- Biopsy- tru-cut/core
- Abnormal collection diagnostic tap
- Angiography
Therapeutic
- Angioplasty and stenting of stenosed vessels.
- Catheter-based clot thrombolysis for vessel thrombosis /cerebral vein thrombosis
- Chemotherapy (transarterial chemoembolization for liver tumors)
- Drainage of abnormal collections
- Dialysis catheter placement
- Embolization of bleeder vessels/ vascular malformations.
- Endovenous laser ablation of varicose veins
- Foreign body retrieval
- IVC filters for pulmonary thrombosis
- Peripherally inserted central catheter line placement for chemotherapy
- Percutaneous biliary drainage
- Percutaneous nephrostomy
- Pre-op embolization of vascular tumors (juvenile nasal angiofibroma, meningioma etc)
- Radiofrequency ablation for liver, lung and bone focal lesions
- Vertebroplasty/kyphoplasty
- Vascular plugs for congenital heart diseases
GASTRO-INTESTINAL | |
• Transarterial Chemoembolization | Liver Tumors |
• Celiac and mesenteric angiography and embolisation | Occult GI bleeds |
• Celiac and mesenteric stenting | Vascular stenosis/bowel ischemia. |
• PTBD: Percutaneous Transhepatic Biliary drainage | Obstructive jaundice. |
• Radio Frequency Ablation | Liver Tumors |
• TIPS: Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt- | Portal hypertension |
• Trans arterial chemo Embolisation and radiofrequency ablation | Large hemangiomas |
• Therapeutic drainage | Abnormal collection |
• Biliary stenting | Biliary strictures |
• Cholecystotomy | Dilated gall bladder |
CARDIO-THORACIC / VASCULAR SURGERY | |
• Aortic Stenting | Aortic Coarctation, Aneurysm, Psuedo aneurysm |
• Vascular stenting /Angioplasty | Vascular stenosis/ pseudoaneurysm |
• Carotid Artery Stenting | Stroke and carotid artery disease |
• Carotid artery occlusion | Large aneurysm |
• Peripheral arterial stenting | Peripheral vascular disease |
NEPHROLOGY / UROLOGY | |
• Dialysis Catheter Placement (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) | Dialysis |
• Renal Artery angio and Stenting | Renal Donors / Young hypertensives, stenosis |
• Renal Cyst Drainage | Renal cyst |
• Percutaneous Nephrostomy | Obstructive hydronephrosis |
• Pre-op Embolization | Renal tumors |
• Selective Renal Embolisation | Hematuria |
• Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation | Renal tumors |
• Embolisation | Varicocele |
GYNAECOLOGY | |
• Uterine Artery Embolization | Postpartum haemorrhages, fibroids and adenomyosis |
• Fallopian tubal recanalisation | Blocked fallopian tubes |
• Cysts drainage | Ovarian cysts |
ONCOLOGY | |
• Transarterial Chemoembolization | Liver tumors |
• Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter Line | Chemotherapy |
• Radiofrequency ablation of focal tumors | Liver, lung, bone and breast |
• Radiofrequency ablation for Pain Relief | Large bony metastasis and osteoid osteoma |
NEUROLOGY | |
• Carotid Artery Stenting | Stroke and carotid artery disease |
• Coil Embolisation | Cerebral Aneurysms |
• Preoperative Embolisation of tumors. | Meningioma |
• Embolisation of vascular anomalies | AVM/AVF /CCF/VEIN OF GALEN etc |
• Carotid artery Balloon Occlusion test / Occlusions | For carotid artery occlusion / large psuedoaneurysms |
ORTHOPEDIC | |
• Radio Frequency Ablation of Painful Lesions | Osteoid osteoma/metastasis |
• Vertebroplasty / Kyphoplasty | IVD Prolapse, kyphosis |
• Vascular Embolisation | Vascular injury in trauma |
OTOLARYNGOLOGY (E.N.T) | |
• Pre-op Embolization for vascular tumors | Juvenile angiofibroma, Glomus tumors |
• Selective vascular Embolization | Epistaxis |
PULMONARY | |
• FNAC/Biopsies | Lung Tumors and Nodules |
• Pulmonary Artery Angiography and thrombolysis (transcatheter) |
Pulmonary thrombosis |
• Radio Frequency Ablation of Tumors | Focal lung tumors |
• BAE: Bronchial Artery Embolization | Hematemesis |
• Embolisation | Pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas and malformations |
• IVC Filter placement | Pulmonary thromboebolism in DVT |
PEDIATRICS | |
• INCLUDING ALL THE ABOVE PROCEDURES + | |
• Fibromuscular dysplasia | Renal angioplasty |
• Congenital heart diseases (ASD, VSD, Patent ductus Arteriosus, Aortopulmonary Window.) |
Vascular plugs |
• Venous hemangiomas | Sclerotherapy |
• Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery • Chest Medicine• Dentistry • Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery • Emergency Medical Services • Gastroenterology • General Surgery • Medicine • Nephrology • Neurology • Neurosurgery • Obstetrics & Gynecology • Ophthalmology • Orthopedics • Pediatrics • Surgical Gastroenterology • Transfusion Medicine • Urology
Consultant Team:

Dr. Balaji Kola Patel
