How does the Interventional Radiology Department work

What does the interventional radiology department do? Have you ever been curious about it? Let me tell you.

The interventional radiology department is an interdisciplinary clinical discipline between surgery and internal medicine. It refers to the use of interventional radiology to diagnose and treat diseases.

Interventional therapy requires the introduction of specially made puncture needles, catheters, guide wires, and other instruments into the human body through the guidance of medical imaging equipment. Commonly used imaging devices are the medical digital subtraction angiography system, mobile C arm X ray machine, mobile cath lab.

It is usually percutaneously puncturing the blood vessel, or target organ, to introduce the interventional device into the body. On the body surface, only a 1-2 mm puncture needle opening will be left. Interventional therapy has a good performance for many diseases that could not be treated in the past, or had to be treated by surgery.