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