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Interventional Radiology

AVAILABLE AT Memorial Nason

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Advantages  

  • Most procedures can be performed on an outpatient basis or require only a short hospital stay
  • General anesthesia is usually not required
  • Risk, pain and recovery time are often much less 
  • Procedures are sometimes less expensive than surgery 
  • Covered by most insurances 

Equipment and Procedures

Conemaugh Health System interventional suites and general procedure room for fluoro guided procedures

Procedures

Angiography, drainages, biopsies, image assisted line placement including PICC lines, dialysis catheters and chest port insertion, uterine artery embolization, pain injections including vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty; oncologic interventions including microwave ablation of bone, liver, lung, and kidney lesions; chemoembolization and Y90 radioembolization of liver cancers.