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Vein problems

Conditions & treatments

• Varicose veins
  • Bleeding varicose vein: what to do
• Spider veins
• Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs)
• DVT (deep vein blood clots)
• Pulmonary embolism (blood clots in the lungs)
• IVC filter placement and removal
• Pelvic congestion syndrome
• Varicocele

Arterial problems

Conditions & treatments

• Peripheral arterial disease
• Pulmonary embolism (blood clots in the lungs)
• DVT (deep vein blood clots)
• Aneurysms
• Endoleaks
• Vascular malformations

Embolizations

Procedures

• Y-90 radioembolization
• Chemoembolization (TACE)
• Epistaxis embolization
• Middle meningeal artery embolization
• Prostate artery embolization
• Uterine fibroid embolization
• Genicular artery embolization
• Hip embolization
• Shoulder embolization
• Varicocele embolization
• Arteriovenous malformation embolization
• Portal vein embolization

Cancer interventions

Cancer treatment & diagnosis

• Radioembolization (Y-90)
• Chemoembolization (TACE)
• Histotripsy
• Image-guided biopsies
  • Lung biopsy
  • Liver biopsy
  • Kidney biopsy
  • Bone marrow biopsy
  • Thyroid biopsy
  • Salivary gland biopsy
  • Lymph node biopsy
• Tumor ablation
  • Cryoablation
  • Microwave ablation
• Liver tumors

Palliative cancer care

• Palliative cancer care
  • Thoracentesis
  • Paracentesis
  • Pleurodesis
  • Cancer pain treatment
• Thoracentesis
• Paracentesis
• Pleurodesis
• Cancer pain treatment

Pain therapy

Treatments

• Spinal cord stimulators
• Pain pumps (intrathecal drug delivery)
• Nerve blocks
• Genicular nerve ablation
• Peripheral nerve stimulators
• Kyphoplasty
• Epidural steroid injections
• Ramiplasty
• Sacroplasty

Dialysis access

Understanding your access

• Understanding your dialysis access

Procedures

• Fistulogram
• Tunneled dialysis catheters
• Peritoneal dialysis catheters
• Clotted dialysis access (declot)

General IR

Diagnostic procedures

• Lumbar puncture and myelogram

Interventional urology

• Interventional urology
  • Nephrostomy tube
  • Ureteral stent
  • Nephroureteral stent
• Nephrostomy tube
• Ureteral stent
• Nephroureteral stent

Biliary interventions

• Biliary interventions
  • Biliary drain
  • Percutaneous biliary stone removal
• Biliary drain
• Percutaneous biliary stone removal

Biopsies & drainage

• Image-guided biopsies
  • Lung biopsy
  • Liver biopsy
  • Kidney biopsy
  • Bone marrow biopsy
  • Thyroid biopsy
  • Salivary gland biopsy
  • Lymph node biopsy
• Drainage of fluid collections
  • How do I manage my drain?
  • PleurX catheter
    • Chest PleurX catheter
    • Abdominal PleurX catheter

Feeding tubes

• Feeding tubes
  • Gastrostomy tube (G tube)
  • Gastrojejunostomy tube (GJ tube)
  • Jejunostomy tube (J tube)
• Gastrostomy tube (G tube)
• Gastrojejunostomy tube (GJ tube)
• Jejunostomy tube (J tube)

Chest & vascular access

• Central lines
  • Ports
  • PICC lines
• Pneumothorax (collapsed lung)

Liver disease

Liver disease & procedures

• TIPS (transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt)
• Paracentesis
• Biliary interventions
  • Biliary drain
  • Percutaneous biliary stone removal
• Medical liver biopsy
• Liver tumors

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