What are the tools of interventional radiologists?

UCSF Radiologist Dr. Roy Gordon describes the various tools used by interventional radiologists to do non-invasive surgery and how they can “see” what they are doing inside the body.

 

• Catheters
• Dilation balloons can be put on the end of the catheters which allow us to open up the blocked tubes
• Metal stents allows tubes to stay open, so we put metal stents which collapse and open up in the coronary arteries
• Plugs which is to close things that go in small and expand and block up arteries that are leaking, example if they’re bleeding
• Coils are another way of blocking up vessels and intermediate stage
• IVC filters are an intermediate between blocking and opening by putting in filter