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Overview

Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital’s Pediatric Interventional Radiology (IR) experts provide minimally invasive, image-guided procedures to diagnose and treat children of all ages. We offer comprehensive care dedicated to the treatment of pediatric patients, including vascular malformations, biopsy service with sedation, pain management, feeding tube maintenance, and expert care in hepatobiliary, urological, gastrointestinal and musculoskeletal disorders.

Our interventional radiologists are recognized as pioneers in the field of minimally invasive medicine. In addition to physicians, the team includes advanced practice providers, nurses, and radiology technologists who support our ability to provide image-guided, non-surgical treatments for vascular and non-vascular disease with excellent outcomes for pediatric patients. Most importantly we partner with parents and at-home caregivers to ensure continuous care and education about your child and their health.

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Treatments & Procedures

  • Ablation: cryoablation, microwave, radiofrequency
  • Abscess drainage
  • Arteriogram (or angiogram)
  • Arthrogram
  • Biliary access, dilatation, stone removal
  • Biopsy with sedation
  • Fluid aspiration and drainage from the chest (thoracentesis) and abdomen (paracentesis)
  • Cholecystostomy (gallbladder tube)
  • Dialysis fistula or graft intervention
  • Embolization
  • Feeding tubes
  • Implantable venous port (chest or arm)
  • G tube/GJ tube/J tube: low profile(MIC KEY), traditional (MIC)
  • Joint injections and aspirations
  • Liver biopsy (percutaneous or transjugular)
  • Lumbar puncture
  • Lung biopsy
  • Lymphography and thoracic duct embolization
  • Nephrostomy tube placement
  • Paracentesis
  • Pain management procedures
  • Percutaneous cecostomy tube placement
  • Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiogram
  • PICC (peripherally inserted central catheter) placement
  • Sclerotherapy
  • Thoracentesis
  • Thrombolysis
  • Vascular access placement, removal, and repair

Conditions

At Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, interventional radiology procedures are performed for a broad range of conditions. We collaborate with many pediatric specialists in anesthesiology, cardiology, gastroenterology, hepatology, hematology/oncology, infectious disease, pain management, urology and transplant providers. Interventional radiologists use advanced imaging modalities including ultrasound, fluoroscopy, and computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging to perform procedures through tiny pinholes, thereby avoiding surgery and long recovery times. IR advances enable minimally invasive treatment of many conditions on an outpatient basis, allowing patients to recover in the comfort of their own home.

Conditions that we perform procedures for include:

  • Biliary disorders
  • Cancer
  • Dialysis access treatment
  • Gastrointestinal disorders
  • Infection/Abscess treatment
  • Kidney disorders
  • Liver disorders
  • Lupus treatment
  • Lymphatic disorders
  • Pain management
  • Thyroid disorders
  • Urological disorders
  • Vascular access assistance
  • Vascular Malformations/Anomalies
Interventional radiology
Medical staff performing a procedure in the interventional radiology lab.
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Medical staff looking at real time data to properly guide the procedure.
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Reviewing images from the procedure in the control room of the interventional radiology lab.

 

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Yale New Haven Children's Hospital
Yale New Haven Children's Hospital - Pediatric Specialty Center - New Haven - YNHCH, 2nd Floor
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