Overview

Cooley Dickinson Hospital installed brand new state-of-the-art equipment in its CVIR suite in the fall of 2018, completing a $750k renovation over the preceding summer. The CVIR suite now offers a full spectrum of interventional radiology and related procedures, including simple outpatient treatments like joint injections for pain relief as well as complex embolization and ablation of cancers, arterial stenting and endovascular hemodialysis access repair. In addition, the Interventional Radiology Department provides treatment for longer term, chronic venous insufficiency conditions, and can interpret and evaluate non-invasive vascular imaging.

Cooley Dickinson offers a growing list of procedures through the CVIR suite, including but not limited to:

• Angiography
• Therapeutic joint injections (e.g. shoulder, hip for degenerative osteoarthritis)
• Arteriovenous Malformations (AVM)
• Balloon Angioplasty
• Biliary Drainage and Stenting
• GI-Bleeding
• Central Venous Access
• Chemoembolization
• Radioembolization
• Embolization
• Gastrostomy Tube
• Hemodialysis Access Maintenance
• Infection and Abscess Drainage
• Kyphoplasty
• Needle Biopsy
• Radiofrequency Ablation
• Stent
• Thrombolysis
• TIPS (Transjugular Intraheptic Portosystemic Shunt)
• Urinary Tract Obstruction
• Uterine Artery Embolization (UAE)
• Uterine Fibroid Embolization (UFE)
• Varicocele Embolization
• Varicose Vein Treatment
• Vena Cava Filter
• Vertebroplasty
• Vertebral Augmentation

Most patients will require a physician referral, but can also contact us directly with inquiries at 413-582-4701.