THE RADIOLOGY CONSULTANTS OF THE MIDWEST DIFFERENCE: MINIMALLY INVASIVE THERAPIES
Radiology Consultants of the Midwest’s fellowship-trained interventional radiologists offer expertise in a wide array of non-invasive treatments for a variety of medical conditions.
Patients receive:
- Expertise of largest group of fellowship-trained interventional radiologists (IR) in the region
- Most experienced vertebroplasty service in region, completing more than 3000 since 2001
- Most experienced at IR treatment of migraine headaches
- Longest running IR central line service, established in 1995
- Most experience with uterine artery embolizations, beginning in 2000
Types of procedures:
- Drainage procedures - abnormal fluid collections in the body
- Image guided biopsies - nearly all organs in the body
- IVC filter placement and retrieval - to help prevent clots in the lungs
- Kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty - for painful vertebral compression fractures
- Peripheral Artery Disease - treatments such as angioplasty, stenting, and clot treatment to increase blood flow
- Selective Internal Radiation Therapy - Treatment for cancer that has spread to the liver
- Sphenocath - for migraine headaches and trigeminal neuralgia
- Tenex fasciotomy and tenotomy - for plantar fascitis, achilles tendonitis, tennis and golfer's elbow
- Tumor ablation - freezing tumors (cryoablation) and burning tumors (microwave ablation and radio frequency ablation)
- Uterine Fibroid Embolization - treatment of symptomatic uterine fibroids
- Varicose Vein Treatment - laser treatments and injections for painful and unsightly varicose veins