Valley Health System offers interventional radiology that combines advanced imaging and minimally invasive techniques to deliver precise, effective treatment for a wide range of conditions – often with quicker recovery and less disruption to daily life compared to traditional surgery.
What is Interventional Radiology?
Interventional radiology encompasses a variety of advanced diagnostic and treatment procedures used to treat many medical conditions, including cancer, women’s health issues, vascular disease, gastric problems, urologic conditions, and a host of others. To perform a procedure, Valley’s highly skilled, board-certified interventional radiologists use advanced imaging technology – including ultrasound studies and CT scans – to guide tiny instruments precisely through pinhole-sized openings in the skin and blood vessels.
The Benefits of Interventional Radiology
Minimally invasive interventional radiologic procedures often provide a safer alternative to surgery. Patients usually go home the same day, heal faster, experience less discomfort, and can return to their daily activities sooner than if they had undergone surgery.
The Valley Approach to Interventional Radiology Services
Valley’s interventional radiology team collaborates with the patient’s care team and, when appropriate, the Valley oncology tumor board, clinical trials team, and physician committees to develop a targeted treatment plan.
General Interventional Radiology Procedures
- Ablation
- Angiography
- Angioplasty
- Catheter/drain insertions
- Embolization
- Foreign body removal
- Gastrostomy tubes
- IVC filters
- Needle biopsy
- Nephrostomy tubes
- Port Insertion/Venous access
- Stent placement
Condition-Specific Procedures
Cancer (Oncology)
- Bone tumor ablations (cryoablation/radiofrequency/microwave)
- Chemotherapy ports
- CT scan- and ultrasound-guided biopsies
- Fiducial marking
- Kidney ablations (cryoablation/microwave)
- Kidney tumor embolization
- Liver ablations (cryoablation/radiofrequency/microwave)
- Liver embolization (bland embolization, chemoembolization, Y90 radioembolization)
- Tunneled peritoneal drain insertion (for recurrent malignant ascites)
- Tunneled pleural drain insertion (for recurrent malignant effusion)
Drainage
- Abscess drainage
- Fistulograms
- Paracentesis
- Seroma/lymphocele drainage/sclerosis
- Thoracentesis
- Tunneled peritoneal drain insertion (for recurrent malignant ascites)
- Tunneled pleural drain insertion (for recurrent malignant effusion)
Gastrointestinal
- Balloon retrograde obliteration of varices (BRT)
- Biliary drain insertion
- Biliary stenting
- Cholangiogram
- Cholecystostomy tube insertion
- Gastrointestinal embolization for bleeding
- Gastrojejunostomy tube insertion/exchange
- Gastrostomy tube insertion/exchange
- Hemorrhoid artery embolization
- Jejunostomy tube exchange
- Paracentesis
- Transhepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS)
- Tunneled peritoneal catheter insertion for recurrent ascites (Aspira/PeritX)
Gynecologic
- Ovarian vein embolization for pelvic congestion syndrome
- Uterine artery embolization for adenomyosis
- Uterine fibroid embolization
- Venous stenting for May-Thurner
Neurologic
- CT-guided nerve ablation
- Fluoroscopic-guided lumbar puncture
- Image-guided nerve ablation
Orthopedic
- Bone tumor ablations (cryoablation/radiofrequency/microwave)
- Geniculate artery embolization
- Image-guided joint injections
- Kyphoplasty
- Sacroplasty
Pulmonary
- Fiducial marking
- Intercostal nerve block/cryoablation
- Lung/mediastinal biopsy
- Lymphangiography and embolization
- Pulmonary AVM (arteriovenous malformation) embolization
- Thoracentesis
- Tunneled pleural drain insertion – PleurX (for recurrent malignant effusion)
Urologic
- AML (angiomyolipoma) embolization
- Kidney ablations (cryoablation/microwave)
- Kidney tumor embolization
- Nephrostomy tube insertion/exchange
- Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (in conjunction with urology)
- Prostate artery embolization for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)
- Renal cyst drainage/sclerosis
- Ureteral stent insertion
- Varicocele embolization
Vascular
- Angiography/stenting/embolization
- Chemotherapy port insertion
- Endoleak embolization including transcaval approach
- Inferior vena cava (IVC) filter insertion
- IVC filter retrieval
- Peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) line insertion
- Tunneled central line insertion
- Venography/stenting/embolization
Why Choose Valley for Interventional Radiology Procedures?
Valley offers interventional radiology care through a multidisciplinary team that creates personalized treatment plans using advanced, minimally invasive techniques. Our highly experienced specialists use leading-edge imaging technology to deliver nationally recognized care in an award-winning facility – close to home.
