Clinical Activities
Clinical Activities
Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology of University Clinic “High Technology Medical Center” of Tbilisi First Hospital provides Interventional Radiology services to the whole Georgia being the same time the clinical base for TSMU undergraduate and postgraduate Radiology students, for continuing education of medical doctors.
The wide spectrum of Interventional Radiology procedures, being performed in above mentioned department include almost all the manipulations, which exist today throughout the World.
Here is a list of Interventional Diagnostic and Low-Invasive Treatment Procedures being routinely performed at “High Technology Medical Center” (Using Percutaneal, Vaginal or Rectal Approach) under Ultrasound, CT, Angiography and Combined (Ultrasound-Fluoroscopy or CT-Ultrasound-Fluoroscopy) Guidance
Diagnostic Procedures:
- Fine needle biopsy for cytology
- Core biopsy for tissue morphology (soft tissue, abdominal organs, retroperitoneal space, thorax including mediastinum)
- Diagnostic aspiration of ascitic fluid
- Amniotic fluid aspiration for caryotype sampling
- Intraoperative Ultrasound
- Percutaneal cholangiography
Low-Invasive Aspiration-Drainage Procedures
- External drainage of intrahepatic bile ducts (cholangiostomy)
- External-internal drainage of intrahepatic bile ducts
- External drainage of gallbladder (cholecyctostomy)
- Subdiaphragm abscess drainage
- Liver abscess aspiration
- Liver abscess drainage
- Liver hematoma aspiration-drainage
- Liver cyst (including parasitic) aspiration- drainage
- Percutaneal wirsungostomy (including transgastric approach)
- Pancreatic fluid collections drainage
- Pancreatic fluid collections fine needle percutaneal aspiration via the gastric walls
- Nephrostomy
- Renal cyst aspiration-sclerotherapy
- Infected renal cyst (abscess) drainage
- Tubo-ovarian abscess (TOA) percutaneal drainage
- TOA pervaginal and perrectal aspiration-rinsing and drainage
- Ovarian cyst pervaginal and perrectal aspiration
- Prostate abscess perrectal aspiration-rinsing
- Paraproctitis perrectal aspiration-rinsing
- Abdominal wall postsurgery seroma aspiration
- Ascitic fluid drainage
- Breast cyst aspiration
- Pericardial Space Drainage
Local Ablative Treatment of Masses
- Percutaneal RFA of tumors
- Thyroid gland node sclerotherapy& Laser destruction
Vessel/Duct Patency Restoration Procedures (Including Endoluminal RFA)
- Bile duct Baloon Dilatation/Stenting
- Wirsung Duct Stenting
- Biliary block recanalisation using Endobiliary RFA&stenting
- Wirsung Duct Block recanalisation using Endobiliary RFA&stenting
- Portal vein thrombus percutaneal thrombodestruction and catheter directed local thrombolysis
- Portal vein thrombus rechanneling using Endovascular RFA&angioplasty
Percutaneal Litholapaxy Procedures
- Percutaneal Wirsungolitholapaxy
- Percutaneal Biliolitholapaxy
Anestesia
- Brachial plexus fascial sheath catheterization for anesthesia
Treatment Procedures under Angiography Guidance
- Embolization for Internal bleeding
- Transarterial Chemoembolization (TACE) and Transarterial Embolization (TAE) of liver tumors
November 29, 2009 TSMU and TSMU Interventional Radiology Center (nowadays – above mentioned department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology) organized International Conference and Workshop “RFA and Interventional Radiology”
September 03-04, 2010 – Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) together with Georgian Association of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology (GACIR) organized the ESIR (European School of Interventional Radiology) training course “Biliary and Oncologic Interventions”, which was attended by 56 participants from 7 countries.
CT contr - Percutaneal procedure performed under CT guidance – posterior mediastinum biopsy.
TOA – TOA pervaginal drainage, performed under combined (Ultrasound-Fluoroscopy) control
Endobiliary RFA - percutaneal clearance of biliary block (caused by CBD tumour) performed by percutaneal RFA processing with subsequent ductoplasty
Percutaneal Wirsungolitholapaxy - Wirsung duct stones conduction into the duodenum using balloon - performed to acute obstructive pancreatitis after preliminary percutaneal Wirsungostomy
Members Area
GACIR Activity
- The next (#39) meeting of Georgian Association of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology
- (#38) meeting of Georgian Association of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology
- The next (#37) meeting of Georgian Association of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology –
- The next (#36) meeting of Georgian Association of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology “IR in upper GI bleeding – what can we do today?” – takes place at 6 p.m., March 28, 2019. Venue: Hotel "Holliday Inn" , conference hall "Green Room"
- The next (#35) meeting of Georgian Association of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology