General Practitioners

• Osteoporosis
• Smoking Cessation
  Lifestyle: Often PAD can be treated with lifestyle changes. Smoking cessation and a structured exercise program are often all that is needed to alleviate symptoms and prevent further progression of the disease.
• Male Infertility
  Embolization is an equally effective technique to treat male infertility and costs about the same as surgical ligation. Pregnancy rates and recurrence rates are comparable to those following surgical varicocelectomy. In one study, sixty percent conceived who were treated for infertility.
• Emergency Care
  In patients in whom this is not appropriate and blood thinners are contraindicated, an interventional radiologist can insert a vena cava filter, a small device that functions like a catcher's mitt to capture blood clots, but allows normal liquid blood to pass. People with symptoms of DVT should first go to an emergency room to seek help, to receive initial treatment with blood thinners to prevent a pulmonary embolism. After treatment with blood thinners, if symptoms such as leg pain and swelling continue, patients should obtain a consult with an interventional radiologist for further evaluation.
• Constipation

Gynecologists

• Female Infertility
• Pelvic Pain
• Pregnancy
• Labor and Delivery
  Embolization of the uterine arteries is not new. While embolization to treat uterine fibroids has been performed since 1995, interventional radiologists have used it successfully for more than 20 years to treat heavy bleeding after childbirth.

Internists

• Colon Cancer
  Computed Tomography (CT) has become an important tool in medical imaging to supplement X-rays and medical ultrasonography. It has more recently been used for preventive medicine or screening for disease, for example CT colonography for patients with a high risk of colon cancer, or full-motion heart scans for patients with high risk of heart disease.
• Lung Cancer
  Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death among women, exceeded only by lung cancer. Statistics indicate that one in eight women will develop breast cancer sometime in her lifetime. The stage at which breast cancer is detected influences a woman's chance of survival. If detected early, the five-year survival rate is 98 percent.

Psychiatrists

• Depression
• Anxiety

Endocrinologist

• Thyroid

Radiologist

• Ultrasound
  Ultrasound imaging is a common diagnostic medical procedure that uses high-frequency sound waves to produce dynamic images (sonograms) of organs, tissues, or blood flow inside the body. Prenatal ultrasound examinations are performed by trained professionals, such as sonographers, radiologists, and obstetricians. The procedure involves using a transducer, which sends a stream of high-frequency sound waves into the body and detects their echoes as they bounce off internal structures. The sound waves are then converted to electric impulses, which are processed to form an image displayed on a computer monitor. It is from these images that videos and portraits are made.
• MRI
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• Radiology
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• X-Rays
• Nuclear Medicine
  After registering, patients are escorted to the PET suite. A radioisotope is then injected into an arm vein by a registered nuclear medicine technologist. Patients then rest quietly for a short period of time, about 45 minutes, as the tracer circulates throughout the body. When it is time for the PET scan to begin, patients are then instructed to lie down on a specialized table that slides into the scanner- a donut-shaped machine that resembles a CT scanner. The scan will take about 30 minutes.
• Mammography
  Digital Mammography is currentlythe best screening tool to detect breast cancer. Its ability to improve image quality witha lower compression force and less radiation allows the patient to have a more comfortable experience than conventional mammography. Much like digital photography, digital mammographycan be enhanced and viewed instantly reducing the exam and turnaround time for results.
• Computed Tomography
  A PET/CT scan combines PET and CT into one image to evaluate the biological and metabolic activity of tumors, the heart, and the brain. PET (Positron Emission Tomography) utilizes a low-level radiopharmaceutical or a "glucose tracer" (F18 FDG, an isotope similar to glucose) to visualize energy pathways within the organs. The glucose tracer emits positrons, or positive electrons. As the positrons encounter electrons within the body, a reaction occurs which produces gamma rays. These gamma rays are then detected by the PET scanner. Therefore, the image produced by PET contains information about metabolic activity taking place in the body. Malignant tumors are metabolically active and grow more rapidly than normal cells, therefore they require more glucose (sugar) for energy. Consequently, PET is very good at determining whether or not a tumor is malignant through its metabolic activity.
• Chemotherapy
  Our division offers the full range of vascular access. This includes the insertion, removal and maintenance of central venous catheters for such therapies as chemotherapy, hemodialysis, antibiotics, total parenteral nutrition (TPN), and long-term IV access. The types of catheters used include Mediports...
• Radiation Therapy
  Radiology Info tells you how various x-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound, radiation therapy and other procedures are performed. It also addresses what you may experience and how to prepare for the exams. The website contains over 115 radiologic procedures and is updated frequently with new information. All material on the RadiologyInfo.org website is reviewed and approved by experts in the field of radiology from the ACR and RSNA, as well as other professional radiology organizations.
• Interventional Radiology
  Interventional Radiology treatment is often underutilized. Uterine fibroids are very common non-cancerous (benign) growths that develop in the muscular wall of the uterus. They can range in size from very tiny (a quarter of an inch) to larger than a cantaloupe. Occasionally, they can cause the uterus to grow to the size of a five-month pregnancy. In most cases, there is more than one fibroid in the uterus.

Surgeons

• Gangrene
  This includes heart attack and stroke. Peripheral arterial disease (PAD), also known as peripheral vascular disease (PVD), is a very common condition affecting 12-20 percent of Americans age 65 and older. PAD develops most commonly as a result of atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, which occurs when cholesterol and scar tissue build up, forming a plaque inside the arteries that narrows and clogs them, leading to a very serious condition. The clogged arteries cause decreased blood flow to the legs, which can result in pain when walking, and eventually gangrene and amputation. In the renal arteries (the arteries that feed the kidneys), this can cause high blood pressure and renal insufficiency.
• Hysterectomy
  Twenty to forty percent of women ages 35 and older have uterine fibroids of a significant size. African American women are at a higher risk for fibroids: as many as 50 percent have fibroids of a significant size. Uterine fibroids are the most frequent indication for hysterectomy in pre-menopausal women and, therefore, are a major public health issue. Of the 600,000 hysterectomies performed annually in the United States, one-third of these are due to fibroids.

Dermatologists

• Cyst