Interventional Radiology Division

The UPMC IR division performs a wide variety of vascular, nonvascular, and image-guided diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, as well as inpatient and outpatient consultation services throughout the UPMC Health System. Fellowship-trained, dedicated IR faculty with superb expertise offer services and procedures for the diagnosis and treatment of many disorders.

Procedures performed include:

• Aneurysm and pseudoaneurysm treatment
• Trans-catheter and percutaneous Image-guided ablation of cancers of bone, kidney, liver, and lung
• Chemoembolization and Y90 Radioembolization for primary and metastatic liver cancer
• Treatment and prevention of deep vein thrombosis
• Gastrostomy (feeding tube) and gastrojejunostomy placement
• Treatment of complications related to hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT)
• Hypertension and end-stage renal disease therapy
• Male infertility (varicocele) embolization
• Treatment of Liver disease and portal hypertension
• Needle biopsy
• Trans-catheter treatment of chronic pelvic pain
• Angioplasty and stent placement for arterial disease
• Nonsurgical intervention in trauma
• Uterine fibroid embolization
• Varicose vein therapy
• Venous access catheter and port placement
• Vena cava filter placement and removal

Recently completed and facility updates in progress have provided the IR group with new angiography suites and the latest equipment available. In addition to high clinical productivity, the division is active in research, and faculty are currently involved in many investigational clinical studies in collaboration with physicians from Oncology, Surgery, Gynecology, and Transplantation, among others. Fully trained and dedicated IR physicians are available on a daily basis at UPMC hospitals throughout the Pittsburgh region.