Treated Diseases

We can help treat your pediatric patients with these diseases and conditions:

Venous Access

  • Placement of PICCs (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters)
  • Placement of chest ports
  • Placement and maintenance of apheresis, dialysis and infusion catheters
  • Temporary central venous catheters

Percutaneous Biopsy

  • Image-guided soft tissue and bone biopsy
  • Intraarticular steroid injections
  • Percutaneous liver and kidney biopsy
  • Transjugular liver biopsy

Gastrointestinal

  • Placement of gastrostomy and gastrojejunostomy feeding tubes
  • Placement of cecostomy tubes

Drainages

  • Paracentesis
  • Thoracentesis
  • Percutaneous drainage of abscesses and fluid collections
  • Placement of chest tubes

Obstructive Uropathy

  • Nephrostomy, nephroureterostomy and urteteronephrostomy
  • Ureteral stents
  • Percutaneous access for stone retrieval
  • Suprapubic drainage

Biliary Intervention

  • Biliary drainage (native and transplant liver)
  • Cholecystostomy
  • Biliary Endoscopic Laser Lithotripsy (BELL) and percutaneous stone retrieval

Arteriography

  • Renal vascular disease - renal artery angioplasty and stenting
  • Visceral angiography

Vascular Embolization

  • Varicocele embolization
  • GI bleeding
  • AVMs - peripheral and pulmonary
  • Hemoptysis - bronchial artery embolization
  • Sclerotherapy of venous and lymphatic malformations

Venous Thromboembolic Disease

  • Venous thrombolysis, angioplasty and stenting
  • Permanent and temporary caval filtration

Portal Hypertension

  • TIPS
  • Variceal embolization

Chronic Renal Failure and End Stage Renal Disease

  • Dialysis access planning (ultrasound mapping and venography)
  • Percutaneous treatment of malfunctioning or thrombosed dialysis access

Cancer Therapy

  • Chemoembolization of liver tumors
  • Radio Frequency Ablation (RFA) of liver tumors, kidney tumors and osteoid osteomas
  • Stenting of malignant strictures: bile duct, esophageal, tracheobronchial and intestinal