Neurointerventional radiology is a specialized field of medicine that treats conditions that affect the blood vessels in the brain and spinal cord, including: place a catheter (long thin tube) through ...

Interventional radiography procedures have been used more and more over the last 40 years. Along with the rise in the number of procedures, incidents of radiation-induced skin injuries have increased.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Following interventional radiology procedures such as coronary angioplasty, patients were more likely to be discharged home, rather than to a nursing or long-term care facility, when ...

"The elevation of interventional radiology to a specialty level with its own distinct residency program places IR on the same level as surgery, pediatrics, and internal medicine," says one proponent.

In patients with unresectable (unable to be removed by surgery) liver cancer, an interventional radiology procedure called triple-drug transcatheter arterial chemoemobolization followed by a liver ...

Hospitals are on the watch these days for medical errors. One area that has been neglected are radiology departments. The authors of a study by U.S. Pharmacopeia, being released Wednesday, were ...

CHICAGO - Researchers reported today on a procedure that can preserve fertility and potentially save the lives of women with a serious pregnancy complication called placenta accreta. Results of the ...

Interventional radiology ASCs have more ways than ever to collect for procedures, thanks to a surge in the number of billing codes supporting these facilities, according to Mark F. Weiss and Cecilia ...

A procedure can preserve fertility and potentially save the lives of women with a serious pregnancy complication called placenta accreta. Results of the new study showed that placement of balloons in ...