Minimally Invasive Image-Guided Procedures
List of Services for Referring Physicians
SLUCare provides an extensive range of minimally invasive image-guided procedures (MIIPs), performed by board-certified, fellowship-trained specialists in vascular interventional radiology.
Our team works with hepatologists, transplant surgeons, urologists, medical oncologists, surgical oncologists, pulmonologists, critical care specialists, trauma surgeons and others to provide comprehensive care for patients. We take a multidisciplinary approach to formulate the best solutions to our most challenging cases.
SLUCare Minimally Invasive Image-Guided Procedures Include:
- Peripheral vascular disease (PVD)
- Acute thrombo-occlusive disease (cold foot)
- Claudication
- Critical limb ischemia: ulcers
- Angiogram, angioplasty and stents
- Thrombolysis and thrombectomy
- Pulmonary arterio-venous malformation (AVM) treatment
- Pulmonary embolus thrombolysis
- Lung biopsy and fiducial placement
- Cisterna-chyli ablation for chylothorax
- Bronchial embolization
- Lung ablation (microwave, RFA and cyroablations)
- Thoracentesis and chest tube placement
- AV fistulogram and fistula repair
- Declot of AV fistula/graft
- Angioplasty and stenting
- Permanent catheter placement
- Percutaneous gastrostomy
- Percutaneous gastrojejunostomy
- Percutaneous jejunostomy
- Upper and lower GI bleeding embolization
- Renal artery stenosis
- Percutaneous nephrostomy (PCN)
- Ureteric dilatation and stent placement
- Ureteric stent retrieval
- Kidney biopsy
- Prostate biopsy
- Urinoma related procedures
- Biopsy of the liver, kidney and lymph nodes
- Abscess drainage
- Chest tube placement
- Thoracentesis and paracentesis
- Lavage and debridement
- Pseudo-aneurysm thrombin injection
- Percutaneous and transjugular liver biopsy
- Transjugular hepatic venography and pressure measurement
- Transjugular intrahepatic porto-systemic shunt (TIPS)
- Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO)
- Portal vein embolization for FLR hypertrophy
- Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC)
- Biliary drainage, dilatation and stent placement
- Cholecystostomy
- Liver cyst sclerotherapy
- Hepatic artery thrombosis and stenosis
- Portal vein and biliary dilatation
- Biopsy
- Prostate embolization for BPH
- Infertility – varicocele embolization
- Vascular disease
- Bone and tissue biopsy
- Bone tumor ablation
- Joint and facet injection
- Cementoplasty
- Soft tissue vascular malformation treatment
- Cerebral angiography
- Thrombolytic therapy for stroke
- Endovascular coiling for aneurysms
- Carotid artery angioplasty/stenting
- Extra-cranial procedures, including epistaxis
- Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE)
- Y90 treatment of liver (radioembolization)
- Tumor ablations: liver, kidney, lung and bone
- Portal vein embolization
- Prostate fiducial and lung fiducial placement
- Vertebral tumor ablation
- Pre-operative tumor embolization
- Denver shunt placement
- Pleurex catheter and tunneled peritoneal catheter placement
- Epidural steroid
- Celiac plexus blocks
- Facet injection and joint injection
- Spinal nerve block
- Kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty
- Joint aspiration and injections
- IVC filter placement and retrieval
- Deep vein thrombolysis (DVT) – dissolving clots in veins
- Varicose veins: endovenous laser ablation treatment (EVLT) and sclerotherapy
- Pulmonary embolism thrombolysis
- Venogram, venoplasty and stenting
- Adrenal vein sampling for adrenal adenomas in hypertension
- PICC line placement
- Tunneled catheters like Hickman, Broviac, powerline and phresis catheters
- Foreign body retrieval of broken wires and catheters inside body
- Adrenal vein sampling for adrenal adenomas in hypertension
- Uterine fibroid embolization
- Pelvic pain (chronic pelvic congestion syndrome)
- Pelvic venous congestion syndrome
- Transvaginal methotrexate injection for ectopic pregnancy
- Transvaginal cyst aspiration
- Fallopian tube canalization
- Postpartum hemorrhage
- Pre-op embolization for accreta and percreta
- Vascular disease
How to Refer a Patient to SLUCare Radiology:
Call or fax our interventional radiology coordinators.
Phone: 314-617-2888
Fax: 314-257-2171