Review: Interventional radiology in peripheral vascular disease

Interventional Radiology: Vascular Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures

For the most part, a system of component coding is used in these cases, in order to accurately describe the separately identifiable surgical and imaging services performed by the radiologist. In this way, the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code structure recognizes that there can be variations in the services performed during diagnostic angiography and vascular transcatheter therapies, wh...

Interventional treatment of coronary heart disease and peripheral vascular disease.

Diagnostic Catheter Procedures In 1958, Mason Sones and his colleagues developed selective coronary angiography and published it as an abstract in Circulation.2 As a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic, he performed angiography of the aortic root in a patient with valvular heart disease. Looking directly into the x-ray beam, as was customary in the era before image intensifiers coupled to tele...

Application of live 3D tools in vascular interventional radiology

An accurate morphological assessment of blood vessels and their relationship with interventional devices is essential in the management of vascular lesions, and digital subtraction angiography (DSA) has had a central role in the deployment of interventional procedures. The introduction of three-dimensional rotational angiography (3D RA) and flat panel detector technology has further contributed...

Vascular radiology in liver disease.

Vascular and Interventional Radiology in Blunt Abdominopelvic Trauma‐ Institutional Practice and Review of the Literature

Trauma is the leading cause of mortality among young Americans. One third of these patients die from exsanguination. Primary management of blunt trauma is non-operative for most hemodynamically stable patients. Advances in endovascular equipment and techniques have led to an established role for adjunctive endovascular therapy in selected patients. Here we provide a literature review and discus...