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- Title
Endovascular management of aorto-iliac occlusive disease.
- Authors
O'Sullivan, Gerard J.
- Abstract
As the techniques for endovascular treatment of aortic bifurcation disease become more widely known, it is not enough for interventional radiologists (IR) to be merely technically excellent at the procedural aspects of this important intervention. They must also become expert at managing the patient, and establishing direct contact not only with the patient, but also with the patient's primary doctor, usually their general practitioner. Younger IR physicians may have not had the opportunity to perform as many arterial catheter studies as their grayer counterparts for two main reasons: the shift towards non-invasive studies (US/CTA/MRA), and the encroachment of other specialties on the endovascular field of play. This is not a cause for despair. If you offer the best service, with the best results, you will, in time, get the referrals. However, you must be prepared to offer more than a glorified angiography service: critical to this is the establishment of an Interventional Radiology Clinic, as this then becomes the target for referrals from a variety of other specialties.
- Subjects
SURGICAL stents; ARTERIAL diseases; PERIPHERAL vascular diseases; RADIOLOGY; ARTERIAL catheterization; PHYSICIANS
- Publication
Abdominal Imaging, 2009, Vol 34, Issue 3, p403
- ISSN
0942-8925
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s00261-008-9397-3