Interventional Radiology

Results

Interventional Radiology
• Replacing painful and costly surgery
   Ingalls offers an innovative branch of medicine
   in which physicians treat diseases by using X-rays and
   other imaging techniques to "see" inside the body
   while they guide narrow tubes called catheters through
   the blood vessels and other pathways of the body to
   the site of the problem. Many of these
   minimally-invasive procedures have replaced
   traditional surgery because they offer patients
   treatment options that are less costly and involve
   smaller incisions, less pain and shorter hospital stays.
• Minimally-invasive surgery
   At Ingalls, we perform almost 12,000 minimally-
   invasive procedures a year. That's more than any
   other hospital in the area. Two of our most advanced
   procedures are intensity modulated radiation therapy
   (IMRT) which decreases the side effects of traditional
   therapy while improving cure rates for cancer, and
   magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guided laser
   treatment for doctors to destroy tumors in an
   outpatient procedure without an incision. Some
   conditions we treat include: aneurysms, blood clots,
   cancer, infertility, high blood pressure, liver disease,
   blocked blood vessels and stroke.