UC San Diego Health offers patients interventional radiology and consulting service on an outpatient basis.
Our facilities include state-of-the-art digital interventional radiology suites equipped with ultrasound and fast helical CT scanners.
Our services include:
- Angioplasty and stenting for peripheral vascular disease
- Uterine artery embolization
- Cancer therapies including arterial chemoembolization and radiofrequency (RF) ablation for the treatment of liver cancer
- Transcatheter radioisotope and gene therapy for liver cancer
- Transjugular intrahepatic shunts for bleeding and ascites
- Stent-grafts for aortic aneurysms
- Carotid angioplasty and stents
- Abscess management
- Hepatobiliary interventions
- Gastrointestinal and genitourinary interventions
- New treatments for varicose veins including endovenous laser
- Dialysis graft interventions
- Vascular access for dialysis, chemotherapy and antibiotics
- Venous interventions for pelvic congestion syndrome, superior vena cava syndrome and pulmonary vascular malformations
- IVC filters including retrievable filters