Interventional Radiology

Our Approach

Franciscan Health's interventional radiologists use X-rays and MRIs to guide them when advancing catheters, wires, and other small instruments through the body, usually in an artery, to the source of the disease, non-surgically. Our physicians specialize in minimally invasive, targeted treatments.

Benefits of interventional radiology

Franciscan Health offers the most in-depth knowledge of the least-invasive treatments available coupled with diagnostic and clinical experience across all specialties.

• Most procedures can be performed on an outpatient basis or require only a short hospital stay.
• General anesthesia usually is not required.
• Few or no incisions mean risk, pain and recovery time are often significantly reduced.
• The procedures are sometimes less expensive than surgery or other alternatives.

Additional Interventional radiology services offered

• Vascular interventional
  • Balloon angioplasty and covered and non-covered stent placement
  • Mesenteric and renal angioplasty and stenting
  • Retrieval of intravascular foreign body
• Venous interventional
  • Chest and arm port insertion
  • Non-tunneled and tunneled central venous catheter placement
  • Venography
• Port checks
• GU interventional
• GI interventional
  • Ultrasound and CT guided biopsy of all sites
  • Percutaneous biliary drainage and stenting
• Interventional oncology
  • Preoperative embolization of renal tumors
  • Pleurex catheter placement
  • Cryoablation of tumors
  • Chemoembolization
• Skeletal interventional
  • Bone biopsy