A BRIEF HISTORY OF INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY:
In 1953, a Swedish doctor Sven-Ivar Seldinger pioneered the Seldinger technique, which laid down the foundation of interventional radiology.
Charles Dotter, a vascular radiologist, is commonly known as ‘The Father of Interventional Radiology’, invented angioplasty.
Interventional radiology was once considered “angiography,” or in some hospitals, “special procedures.”
It wasn’t long after x-rays were discovered that scientists began experimenting with interventional procedures. Early in the 20th century, a dedicated scientist injected contrast into one of his own arteries, and the field of angiography was born. Within a few decades, radiologists were looking at the arteries that supply the legs, the aorta and its branches in the chest and abdomen, the arteries in the head and other areas of the body.
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Interventional radiologists perform a wide range or procedures, including:
- Angioplasty and Stent Insertion
- Ascitic Tap
- Biliary Drainage
- Bursal Injection
- Carotid Stenting
- Carpal Tunnel Ultrasound and Injection
- Image Guided Cervical Nerve Root Sleeve Corticosteroid Injection
- Image Guided Liver Biopsy
- Image Guided Lumbar Epidural Corticosteroid Injection
- Image guided lumbar nerve root sleeve injection
- Inferior Vena Cava Filters
- Joint Injection
- Nephrostomy
- Pleural Aspiration
- Radiofrequency Ablation
- SAH Vasospasm Endovascular Treatment
- Selective Internal Radiation Therapy [SIRT]: SIR-Spheres®
- Spinal Cord Embolisation (AVM/DAVF)
- Thyroid fine needle aspiration (FNA)
- Transarterial Chemoembolisation (TACE)
- Uterine Fibroid Embolisation
- Varicose Vein Ablation
- Vascular Closure Devices
- Venous Access
- Vertebroplasty
STAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY:
In 1923, angiography was first successively used for the human body.
In 1953, a Swedish doctor Sven-Ivar Seldinger pioneered the Seldinger technique, which laid down the foundation of interventional radiology.
In 1963, Charles Dotter first proposed the idea of interventional radiology. In 1964, Charles Dotter opened a new era of percutaneous angioplasty through accidental operation, marking the formation of interventional radiology. On this basis, the techniques of balloon catheter dilation and metal stent implantation was developed.
Endovascular stent was proposed in 1969.
In 1973, the percutaneous angioplasty has been a breakthrough with the emergence of soft double-lumen balloon catheter.
Percutaneous coronary angioplasty is applied in 1977.
Since the 1990s, balloon angioplasty relegated to secondary status with the emergence of metal stent.
PIONEERS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY:
In 1953, a Swedish doctor Sven-Ivar Seldinger pioneered the Seldinger technique, which laid down the foundation of interventional radiology.
In 1963, Charles Dotter first proposed the idea of interventional radiology. In 1964, Charles Dotter opened a new era of percutaneous angioplasty through accidental operation, marking the formation of interventional radiology
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