• Interventional Radiology

About: Dr. Rozil J. Gandhi

DMRD (Gold Medalist)

DNB (Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai)

Fellow in Interventional Radiology Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai and Odense University Hospital, Denmark

What is Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Interventional Radiology is a medical sub-specialty of radiology utilizing minimally-invasive image-guided procedures to diagnose and treat diseases in nearly every organ system. The concept behind interventional radiology is to diagnose and treat patients using the least invasive techniques currently available in order to minimize risk to the patient and improve health outcomes. These procedures have less risk, less pain and less recovery time compared to open surgery.

Therapeutic and Diagnostic Specialty

Interventional Radiology (IR) originated within diagnostic radiology as an invasive diagnostic subspecialty. IR is now a therapeutic and diagnostic specialty that comprises a wide range of minimally invasive imageguided therapeutic procedures as well as invasive diagnostic imaging. The range of diseases and organs amenable to image-guided therapeutic and diagnostic procedures are extensive and constantly evolving, and include, but are not limited to, diseases and elements of the vascular, gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, genitourinary, pulmonary, musculoskeletal, and, the central nervous system. As part of IR practice, IR physicians provide patient evaluation and management relevant to image-guided interventions in collaboration with other physicians or independently. IR procedures have become an integral part of medical care.

Many minimally invasive image guided procedures performed by IR have supplanted major surgical procedures by either IR physicians educating other medical fields or IR physicians taking on a clinical role.

Facilities awailable Dr Rozil Gandhi's Interventional Radiology Center are : 

Neurology: 

• Stroke interventions
• Cerebral Venous Thrombolysis
• Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations
• Carotid Artery Stenting
• Cerebral Aneurysm Coiling
• Spinal Arteriovenous Malformation
• Carotico Cavernous Fistula

Vascular: 

• Angioplasty/Stenting of (Extremity/Mesenteric/Renal)
• Catheter-directed Thrombolysis
• Stent Graft for Endovenous Aneurysm
• Hemostasis for bleeding (traumatic/non traumatic) 
• Chemo Embolization (TACE) 
• Tumor embolization
• Fibroid Embolization
• Varicocele Embolization
• Venous Malformation treatments
• PICC
• Jugular
• Femoral
• Permcath
• Chemoport
• Transjugular liver biopsy
• Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS)
• Balloon-occluded Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration (BRTO) of gastric varices
• Hepatic & IVC venoplasty/stenting
• Direct Intrahepatic Portocaval Shunt (DIPS)
• Angioplasty/Stenting
• Deep Venous Thrombolysis

Image guided procedures: 

• Biopsy/FNAC
• Fluid Aspiration and Drainage
• Percutaneous gastrostomy
• Percutaneous gastro-jejunostomy
• Gastrointestinal stenting
• Percutaneous cholecystostomy
• Percutaneous biliary drainage
• Biliary stenting
• Percutaneous Nephrostomy
• Antegrade ureteric stenting
• Tracheo-bronchial stenting

Pain management
Vertebroplasty

Radiofrequency Ablation of
Osteoid Osteoma
Visceral tumors