Patient Experiences of Interventional Radiology
Here you can see how Interventional Radiology or 'Image guided surgery' has benefited patients.
If only I'd found out earlier I had pelvic congestion syndrome - BBC News
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David Robinson, a 67 year old retired butcher who has lived and worked in Bedford all of his life, saw things change for him significantly in the summer of 2015. That is when he was referred by his local diabetes team to the renal service at the Lister hospital in Stevenage.
They discovered that his underlying medical conditions – diabetes and cardiac disease – had led him to experience progressive renal failure, which if left untreated would have threatened his life. In preparation for David to move on to haemodialysis, the Trust’s vascular surgery team created what is called an arterio-venous fistula – a connection between an artery and vein – in his left upper arm to allow his veins to develop so that the needles necessary to support long-term dialysis could be inserted.
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- Graham Baker, 52, a carer from High Wycombe, Bucks, faced the prospect of losing a leg below the knee, a complication of his type 2 diabetes
- He had a 30-minute procedure called endovascular revascularisation at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, and his leg was saved
- It involves feeding a wire into the affected artery with a balloon and a stent which squashes the blockage and holds open the artery
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