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Interventional Radiology

Interventional radiology (IR) is a sub-specialty of radiology where minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures are completed using image guidance, such as X-ray, CT scan, ultrasound, and other technologies. Interventional radiology procedures offer very targeted, comfortable, safe and effective alternatives to surgery, and can generally be performed through either a needle or a small catheter instead of an incision. Some interventional radiology procedures include:

Excellence In Minimally Invasive Care

  • First and only hospital in the Central Valley to create a pulmonary embolism response team.
  • Performs more minimally invasive treatments for pulmonary embolism and DVT than any other hospital in the Central Valley.
  • First to offer Y90 radioembolization for liver cancer in the Central Valley. Currently, 2nd highest volume treatment center on the entire West Coast.
  • Performs more kidney cancer treatments with cryoablation than any other community center in Northern California.
  • Performs more balloon kyphoplasty treatments for vertebral compression fractures than any other hospital in the Central Valley, and 3rd highest volume in Northern California.
  • Participated in more nationwide clinical trials and registries than any other hospital in the Central Valley.

Conditions Treated

Today, with minimally invasive techniques, Interventional Radiologists can treat many conditions that once required surgery. Interventional Radiology treatments offer less risk, less pain, and less recovery time compared to open surgery.

Interventional Oncology

  • Conditions:  Liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma), liver metastases (colon or rectum, neuroendocrine, breast, other), kidney cancer, lung cancer, adrenal tumors
  • Services:  Embolization, chemoembolization, Yttrium-90 (Y90) radioembolization, microwave ablation, cryoablation, alcohol ablation, biopsies

Men's Health

  • Conditions:  Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), varicocele
  • Services:  Prostate artery embolization (PAE), varicocele embolization

Women's Health

  • Conditions:  Uterine fibroids, adenomyosis, pelvic congestion syndrome, infertily
  • Services:  Uterine artery / uterine fibroid embolization (UAE / UFE), High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), gonadal vein embolization, fallopian tube recanalization

Venous Disease

  • Conditions:  Superficial venous disease and varicose veins, deep venous thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, May-Thurner syndrome, Paget-Schroetter syndrome
  • Services:  Varicose vein ablation, sclerotherapy, inferior vena cava (IVC) filter insertion and removal, thrombolysis, angioplasty, stenting, angiovac thrombectomy

Dialysis Access Interventions

  • Conditions:  Hemodialysis access, access malfunction
  • Services:  Dialysis access catheters, maintenance of dialysis fistula / graft patency (de-clot, thrombolysis, angioplasty, stenting)

Portal Hypertension

  • Conditions:  Portal hypertension, esophageal varices, gastric varices, variceal bleeding, ascites, portal vein thrombosis, Budd-Chiari syndrome
  • Services:  Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS), Balloon-assisted retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO), portal vein recanalization, paracentesis, abdominal PleurX placement

Genitourinary Interventions

  • Conditions:  Hydronephrosis, ureter obstruction, angiomyolipoma (AML)
  • Services:  Nephrostomy, ureteral stenting, embolization

Billiary Tract Disease

  • Conditions: Bile duct obstruction, bile leak, cholecystitis
  • Services: Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD), cholangioplasty, stenting, cholecystostomy

Liver, Kidney, Pancreas, and Lung Transplant Interventions

  • Conditions: Rejection, infection, abscess, vascular problems (stenosis, bleeding), bile duct obstruction, bile leak, hydronephrosis, ureter obstruction, urine leak, pleural effusion
  • Services: Angiography, venography, angioplasty, stenting, transjugular liver biopsy, biliary drainage, cholangioplasty, nephrostomy, ureteral stents, chest tubes

Vascular Malformation

  • Conditions: Arteriovenous malformation (AVM), Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT)
  • Services: Angiography, embolization

Other Nonvascular Services

  • Conditions: Abscess, pleural effusion, malnutrition, intestinal leak, pancreas leak, fistulae
  • Services: Imaging-guided drainage, feeding tube placement and management

Learn More

For more information about St. Joseph’s Medical Center’s Interventional Radiology Department, please call (209) 467-6323. To find a doctor near you, please visit us online at dignityhealth.org/ourdoctors.