Interventional cardiologyInterventional cardiology is a branch of cardiology that deals specifically with the catheter based treatment of structural heart diseases. Andreas Gruentzig is considered the father of interventional cardiology after the development of angioplasty by interventional radiologist Charles Dotter. Many procedures can be performed on the heart by catheterization. This most commonly involves the insertion of a sheath into the femoral artery (but, in practice, any large peripheral artery or vein) and cannulating the heart under X-ray visualization (most commonly fluoroscopy).
Interventional neuroradiologyInterventional neuroradiology (INR) also known as neurointerventional surgery (NIS), endovascular therapy (EVT), endovascular neurosurgery, and interventional neurology is a medical subspecialty of neurosurgery, neuroradiology, intervention radiology and neurology specializing in minimally invasive image-based technologies and procedures used in diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the head, neck, and spine.
Angioscannervignette|Coupe mince sagittale d'un anévrisme de l'aorte abdominale (AAA) par tomodensitométrie (flèches). L'angioscanner, appelée aussi angioscopie, est un examen d' qui permet la visualisation des vaisseaux sanguins qui ne sont habituellement pas visibles par radiographie standard. Il fonctionne avec l'injection d'un produit de contraste iodé visible au scanner par l'action des rayons X le rendant opaque. Cela permet de détecter tout problème vasculaire, comme une sténose, en plus de cartographier le réseau vasculaire, par exemple avant une intervention chirurgicale.
