Interventional radiology is a relatively new upper specialization field and includes open surgery and minimal surgical methods without the need for an operating room.
In our Başkent University Hospital Interventional Radiology department; We provide diagnosis and treatment services using a small incision (percutaneous) or intravenously (endovascular) special needle, wire, catheters (thin long flexible tubes), etc., with imaging methods such as angiography, computed tomography, ultrasonography, magnetic resonance.
In our department, we work on a 24/7 basis using the most advanced technology to meet all the demands of our patients and physicians for diagnosis and treatment purposes.
In our interventional radiology services; We plan the process and patient preparation, equipment, quality control issues such as staff by considering the international guides (CIRSE etc.). It targets the ideal result (100 percent success, 0 percent complication) in all our interventional procedures; We act in accordance with the standards of success and complications set in international guidelines.
Before each procedure, our patients are evaluated by our interventional radiology doctor and if necessary, some imaging and laboratory tests are performed. In our department, special treatments that require skill, knowledge and experience are applied by our interventional radiologists with accredited and international diplomas (European Board of Interventional Radiology, EBIR).
What interventional procedures are we doing in our department?
At Başkent Hospital, all interventional radiological procedures can be performed for different systems and organs, whose general examples are given below.
biopsies
Under the guidance of US / MR / CT, special needles are evaluated in the laboratory for tissue sampling from different organs. These procedures are generally performed with daily hospitalization and local anesthesia.
Tumor marking
Tumor markings are made with materials such as wire metal for diagnostic purposes (for surgical removal of tissue) or for treatment purposes (before Cyberknife). This method is basically similar to biopsy procedures.
Drainage (draining) procedures/catheters
With special needles under the guidance of US / CT / Fluoroscopy, catheters, etc. can be placed in the body following the drainage (drainage), and if necessary, chemicals can be added to this area to prevent fluid accumulation.
Intravenous catheters
In cases where sufficient vascular access cannot be found or longer wider vascular access is required, intravenous catheters can be used. For example, catheters can be placed from the vein to the main vein into the main vein system with special needles and wires under the guidance of US / Fluoroscopy for chemotherapy and dialysis. More rarely, catheters may be inserted into the arteries for similar purposes.
Vascular (vascular) treatments
Interventional radiologists can treat vascular diseases of the arteries and balls of all other organs in the body with an angiographic method similar to stent and balloon treatments in the coronary arteries in the heart. The aim may not just be to open the vein, but sometimes to close the vein that causes bleeding or impairs circulation.
Treatment of vascular stenosis and obstruction
It may cause complaints to the type of organ and vein where the clot stenosis and obstruction due to different reasons in the arteries or the veins are present. For example, the obstruction of the leg artery to the wounds that do not heal in the diabetic patients may cause high blood pressure and impaired kidney function, while the leg vein obstruction may cause swelling in the leg and pain in the citt. Following the diagnostic angiography, angioplasty (balloon expansion) and / or stent (artificial vein) can be performed for narrowing vessels (as done in the heart vessels). If there is a clot that causes sudden occlusion in the arteries or veins, the clot can be destroyed with blood-thinning medications or mechanically. A filter (umbrella-like) can be inserted into the vein, as the clot in the veins can throw and block the lung vessels and cause fatal consequences.
Treatments for bleeding
Embolization (occlusion) treatments for acute or chronically bleeding vessels due to trauma, tumor, aneurysm, ulcers in the gastrointestinal tract, etc. in different organs can be performed angiographically. In this method, which can sometimes be life-saving, particles, metallic sleeves or adhesive or occlusive liquid agents are used for this purpose.
Abnormal congenital vascular structures and Varicose veins treatments
Vascular malformations and varicose veins occurring in organs or skin in different parts of the body in congenital or developmental arteries, veins or lymph vessels may cause not only cosmetic but also a significant loss of function-organ, bleeding. These diseases are successfully treated in interventional radiology with sclerotherapy, liquid agents, intravenous laser, etc. methods.