Welcome to Dr. Ankit's Interventional Radiology Portal

Interventional Radiology is all about the ability of physicians to gain access into a human body with a small cut on the skin and run through the network of arteries of a person to provide localized treatment at the site of the disease condition.

It is done with the help of miniature instruments of a few millimeters in size, called as catheters (small tubes), guidewires, stents (metallic mesh tubes) and specialized agents to block vessels under imaging guidance.

Physicians who undertake such procedures are basically trained in the field of Radiology and have high level of expertise in understanding and assimilating the information provided as images to them through X-Rays, Ultrasounds, CT Scans, MRI and other medical images. They belong to the medical fraternity known as Interventional Radiologists.

An abnormal dilatation of a blood vessel is termed aneurysm . One of the common locations for aneurysm development is the aorta. The aorta is the main blood vessel of the body and exits out of the heart to supply all the organs of the body through several branches . Its like a big tree trunk which gives rise to branches.