UCSF Radiologist Dr. Roy Gordon describes how interventional radiologists treat blocked fallopian tubes.
Tubes were opened using tiny catheters inserted from below. Patients with proximal occlusions (blockage where tube meets the body) have very good outcome since there is an effective procedure that can fix this.
Angiogram of the arteries and veins of the right lung.
The catheter inserted into a vein from the groin. It passes up through the inferior vena cava, and through two heart chambers in the lung.
If treated it would have to be open heart surgery, but through interventional radiology it can be done through a minimally invasive procedure done by a catheter.
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
