New angiography unit can reduce the need for surgery

The Heart and Vascular Center (HVC) recently added a single-plane angiography unit at Yale New Haven Hospital’s Saint Raphael Campus. The unit, used for complex interventional radiology (IR) procedures, supports image-guided, non-surgical treatments. This approach often reduces the need for traditional surgery. The IR team includes interventional radiologists, nurses and IR technologists. In front of the new unit are (l-r): Francine LoRusso, RN, senior vice president, Operations, and executive director, Heart and Vascular Services, Transplantation Center, Medicine and Radiology services, Yale New Haven Health; Pamela Sutton-Wallace, executive vice president and chief operating officer, YNHHS; David Madoff, MD, professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and Medical Oncology and section chief, Interventional Radiology at Yale School of Medicine (YSM); Elizabeth Fletcher, DNP, RN, vice president, Heart and Vascular Services, YNHH; and interventional radiologists Juan Carlos Perez Lozada, MD, associate professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, YSM, and Rahmat Ali, MD, assistant professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, YSM. Learn more about Interventional Radiology services.