WHAT IS INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY?
Interventional radiology is a branch that can treat the medical diseases that once required open surgery with the help of today's advanced imaging methods (ultrasound, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging or angiography devices).
Using advanced imaging techniques, the disease in any part of the body is easily detected, and since it is part of their basic training, interventional radiologists can provide very safe treatments, even in complicated diseases, under the guidance of them.
The use of advanced imaging techniques in these therapies allows interventional radiologists to perform the procedures very safely.
This procedure is safe and control of each step significantly reduces the rate of side effects (complications) associated with the procedures.
Large incisions such as surgical incisions are not used in the procedures.
Procedures for the patient can be performed safely by very small holes in the skin or by small vessel sheaths placed inside the vein.
Patients do not need general anesthesia for many procedures and can thus be protected from the potential complications of general anesthesia.
Procedures can be performed painlessly and in a short time using sedo-analgesia, which is a much simpler and superficial form of anesthesia.
Because the procedures are performed safely with imaging methods, they do not contain large incisions and there are fewer procedure-related side effects (complications), the recovery period is shorter and hospitalization time is significantly shortened.
In fact, some procedures such as biopsies for diagnosis can be performed with daily hospitalizations without the need for hospitalization.