Description
Here’s the resource Radiology calls ‘an ideal introduction to interventional radiology’ – back in a thoroughly updated new edition! Readers will achieve successful outcomes for the most common diagnostic and therapeutic procedures with its clear, step-by-step guidance. More than 200 line diagrams and clinical photographs make complex information easy to understand and apply.Table of Contents: SECTION 1 GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF ANGIOGRAPHY AND INTERVENTION 2 1 Basic Principles of Intervention 3 Contrast 4 Sedation 5 Drugs used in interventional radiology SECTION 2 VASCULAR INTERVENTION 1 Angiography – Getting the picture 2 Equipment for angiography Catheters and sheaths Guidewires Other essential equipment 3 Vascular access 4 Complications of angiography and vascular intervention 5 Diagnostic angiography 6 Angioplasty 7 Stents and stent grafts – Where, when and how 8 Thrombolysis and thrombectomy – techniques, regimes and equipment 9 Embolization 10 Venous intervention 11 Haemodialysis access – Imaging and intervention 12 Foreign body retrieval – techniques and clinical scenarios SECTION 3 NON-VASCULAR INTERVENTION 1 Imaging guidance for intervention 2 Equipment for non-vascular intervention 3 Biopsy and drainage 4 Percutaneous renal intervention 5 Biliary intervention 6 Percutaneous fluoroscopic gastrostomy 7 Oesophageal stenting
