醫學研究

A brief overview of vascular and interventional radiology

Yu SCH. The Hong Kong Medical Diary. 2010 Jul;15(7):4-5.

Excerpt

Vascular and interventional radiology (VIR) is also called image-guided minimally-invasive therapy, a procedure-based therapeutic subspecialty of modern medicine. With the invention of devices and treatment procedures such as angioplasty and the catheter-delivered stent, the pioneers of VIR have seen the development of the subspecialty in clinical application at an amazingly rapid pace in the last couple of decades.

Interventional radiologists are medical specialists who are well trained in state-of-the-art medical imaging and diagnosis, in clinical experience across multiple medical specialties, as well as in-depth knowledge and skills of VIR treatment procedures. They are fully equipped for partnership in the treatment and clinical management of patients for a wide variety of disease conditions on a multi-disciplinary basis.

With advancement in technology and knowledge, endovascular procedures of VIR have been found to be a less invasive treatment option alternative to open surgery in some disease conditions and the only viable treatment option in the others. Due to the scope of this article, the following conditions are selected to illustrate the role of VIR: 1) uterine artery embolisation for uterine fibroids, 2) endovascular aortic repair for aortic dissections, 3) Transvenous embolisation of dural carotid cavernous fistulae, and 4) stenting of intracranial atherosclerosis for stroke prevention.

Citation:

Yu SCH. A Brief Overview of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. The Hong Kong Medical Diary. 2010 Jul;15(7):4-5.

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