Imaging and Radio Diagnosis

The department of Imaging and Radiodiagnosis offers round-the-clock services under the guidance of experienced Radiologists.

TYPES OF SERVICES / PROCEDURES OFFERED

GENERAL RADIOGRAPHY (ALL PARTS)

BREAST IMAGING

• Mammography
• Screening Mammography for women above 40 years
• Breast Ultrasound

ULTRASOUND STUDIES

• Routine obstetric (pregnancy) scans
• Advanced obstetric scans:
  • Aneuploidy and pre-eclampsia risk assessment
  • Targeted imaging for foetal anomalies (TIFFA)
  • Foetal echocardiography (Study of baby’s heart)
  • 3D / 4D scans
• General Ultrasound
• Paediatric Ultrasound
• Vascular Studies: Colour Doppler
• Transrectal Ultrasonography
• Sonosalpingography
• Ultrasound of Thyroid
• Ultrasound of Scrotum
• Ultrasound of Musculoskeletal System

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (1.5T MRI)

• MRI General (Brain / Spine / All Joints)
• MR Angiography / Venography / Urography (Non-contrast & Contrast studies)
• MR Dynamic Contrast Study
• CSF Flow Study
• MR Spectroscopy
• MR Perfusion Scan
• MRCP (Magnetic Resonance Cholangiopancreaticography)
• MRI Abdomen / Pelvis
• Multi-parametric MRI of Prostate
• MR Cartigram (Dedicated articular cartilage study)
• MR Defecography

COMPUTERISED TOMOGRAPHY (CT)

• CT: General
• 3D Imaging
• CT Angiography

CONTRAST STUDIES

Gl Tract:

• Barium Swallow
• Barium Meal
• Small Bowel Enema
• Barium Enema
• Proctogram

Urinary System:

• Cystogram
• Micturating Cystourethrography (MCU)
• Urethrogram
• Retrograde Urethrography (RGU)
• Intravenous Urography (IVU)

Other Contrast Studies:

• Sialogram
• Ductogram
• Fistulogram
• Sinogram
• Hysterosalpingography (HSG)
• Nephrogram
• T-tube cholangiography

Interventional Neuroradiology:

1.Neuro interventions

• Acute stroke – mechanical thrombectomy.
• Aneurysm coiling and flow diverter placement for Sub arachnoid hemorrhage – (bleeding in brain) due to ruptured blood vessels
• Arterio venous malformations.
• Pre operative embolization of tumours.
• Carotid and intracranial arterial angioplasty / stenting.
• Dural Arterio venous fistula embolisation.
• Carotico cavernous fistula embolisation.
• Spinal dural AV fistula.
• Thrombectomy for dural vein thrombosis.

2. AORTA AND PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL INTERVENTIONS

• Aortic stent grafting for ruptured and unruptured thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysms
• Stent grafting in aortic dissections.
• Peripheral vascular disease and Critical limb ischemia – angioplasty and stenting of the affected vessels (iliac, femoro – popliteal and below knee arteries).
• Acute limb ischemia – thrombolysis.
• Embolisation of AVM (arterio-venous malformations.
• Embolisation of pseudoaneurysms.

3. VENOUS INTERVENTIONS

• Deep vein thrombosis – IVC filter placement and pharmaco mechanical thrombectomy and stenting of veins.
• May thurner syndrome – angioplasty and stenting of iliac veins.
• Ablation of Varicose veins
• Central vein angioplasty and stenting.

4.PULMONARY INTERVENTIONS

• Hemoptysis – bronchial artery embolizations.
• Pulmonary AVM and Rasmussen’s artery embolizations

5.GASTRO INTERVENTIONS

5a. LIVER TUMOUR

• Trans arterial chemoembolization of liver tumour
• Ablations of liver tumours
• PTBD (biliary drainage) and stenting
• Portal vein embolisation

5b. CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE

• TIPSS (trans jugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt), DIPPS (Direct intrahepatic porto- systemic shunt)
• Trans jugular liver biopsy.
• Hepatic vein stenting
• Portal Vein embolisation
• Bleeding gastric varices embolisation – BARTO, PARTO, CARTO

5c. MESENTERIC:

• Chronic Mesenteric Ischemia – celiac artery / mesenteric artery angioplasty and stenting.
• Post trauma pseudoaneurysm / bleeder embolization
• Visceral arterial aneurysm / pseudoaneurysm embolizations

 5d. Miscellaneous gastric interventions.

• Bariatric embolisation.

6.NEPHROLOGY / UROLOGY RELATED INTERVENTIONS

• Renal AV fistula and pseudoaneurysm embolisation
• Renal tumour embolization , ablations.
• AV fistuloplasty
• Central vein stenosis – angioplasty and stenting
• Permcath placement – chronic tunneled hemodialysis catheter placement.
• Percutaneous nephrostomy (PCN) placement.
• Antegrade urteric stenting

7.GENITOURINARY Interventions:

• Uterine fibroid embolisation
• Uterine AVM embolisation
• Pelvic congestion syndrome
• Fallopian tube recanalisation.
• Prostatic artery embolisation for BPH (benign prostatic hypertrophy)

8.ENT

• Preoperative embolisation of vascular tumours and juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma
• Epistaxis – embolisation of internal maxillary artery.

9.OPHTHALMOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS

• Carotico cavernous fistula embolisation.
• Intra arterial Chemoinfusion for retinoblastoma.
• Sclerotherapy of venous and lymphatic malformations in orbit.

10. Musculoskeletal interventions

• Spinal tumour / hemangioma preoperative embolisation
• Post trauma pseudoaneurysm embolization
• Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty.
• Embolisation for Achilles tendinitis
•  Embolisation for pain reduction in osteoarthritis