Angioplasty and Vascular Stenting

Vascular Disease is a systemic process involving arteries from the head to the toes.  In the diagnosis of vascular disease, conventional diagnostic angiography has largely been replaced by the now excellent techniques of CT angiography (CTA) and MR angiography (MRA).  However, once the diagnosis of significant arterial stenosis is made, then it is time for the interventional radiologists to step in and provide effective treatment using the minimally invasive techniques of angioplasty and stenting. 

While cardiologists are the physicians that treat coronary artery stenosis using angioplasty and coronary artery stents, it is interventional radiologists that are the experts in these techniques for stenoses in the remainder of the body.  Notably, angioplasty and stenting are utilized for treatment of renal artery stenosis (RAS) in renal vascular hypertension, carotid stenosis for prevention of stroke, and peripheral vascular disease (PVD) for leg claudication.

Angioplasty and Vascular Stenting are performed by SDI interventional radiologists at St. Joseph's Hospital