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St. Gregorios Advanced Interventional Radiology Services

Interventional Radiology, with the help of imaging and artificial intelligence offers painless, non-surgical alternative to most of the disease conditions with evident advantage of fewer complications and faster recovery.

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Dr Bibin Interventional Radiologist Parumala Hospital

Dr. Bibin Sebastian

Interventional Radiology

Facilities & Services

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  1. Symptom Management:
    • Focus on relieving physical symptoms such as pain, breathlessness, nausea, fatigue, and insomnia.
    • Managing psychological symptoms such as anxiety, depression, and emotional distress.
  2. End-of-Life Care:
    • Specialized care for patients nearing the end of life, ensuring comfort, dignity, and support for the patient and family during this phase.
  3. Holistic Care:
    • Addressing not just physical but also emotional, social, and spiritual needs.
    • Providing psychological counseling and spiritual care based on patient and family preferences.
  4. Family Support and Counseling:
    • Supporting family members through counseling, decision-making, and bereavement care.
    • Helping families understand the disease process, available treatments, and care options..
  5. Advance Care Planning:
    • Helping patients and families make informed decisions about future medical care.
    • Assisting in creating advance directives, living wills, and Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders.
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  1. Pain and Symptom Control:
    • Tailored pain management plans, including the use of medications, nerve blocks, and non-pharmacological therapies.
    • Managing other symptoms like shortness of breath, nausea, and constipation.
  2. Emotional and Psychological Support:
    • Providing counseling and therapy to manage anxiety, depression, and the psychological impact of illness.
    • Offering coping strategies for patients and families.
  3. Home-Based Palliative Care:
    • Providing medical care at home for patients who prefer to receive care in a familiar environment.
    • Coordinating with caregivers and family members to manage patient needs effectively.
  4. Inpatient and Outpatient Palliative Care:
    • Offering services in hospitals, specialized palliative care units, or clinics.
    • Providing consultations to optimize symptom control and treatment planning.
  5. Hospice Care:
    • Specialized care for terminally ill patients focusing on quality of life rather than curative treatments.
    • Emphasizing comfort, emotional support, and compassionate care at the end of life.
  6. Psychosocial and Bereavement Services:
    • Supporting families through the grieving process.
    • Offering bereavement counseling to help family members cope with loss.
  7. Palliative Rehabilitation:
    • Helping patients maintain or regain independence and functionality as much as possible through physical, occupational, or speech therapy.
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  • Arterial revascularisationfor blocked blood vessels
  • Deep Vein Thrombosis - thrombolysis, mechanical thrombectomy
  • Treatment for varicose veins without surgery - ablations and/or foam injection sclerotherapy, Fglue therapy.
  • Vascular malformation – injection sclerotherapy
  • Percutaneous non-surgical dialysis fistula creation, dialysis salvage interventions like Fistuloplasty, removal of blood clot by thrombectomy and thrombolysis
  • Complex/Long term venous access - Chemo Ports, PICC line and other tunnelled insertion
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  • Bronchial artery embolization for coughing out blood (hemoptysis)
  • Thrombolysis and Mechanical thrombectomy in acute pulmonary embolism.
  • Pulmonary AVM embolisation
  • Thoracic duct embolisation to manage post surgicalcomplications like chylous leak
  • Bronchial stent placement
  • Ablation of lung tumors
  • Long term, tunnelled pleural drain for fluid collection in chest – eg. PleurX
  • Lung biopsy for mass lesions in difficult areas
  • Non-surgical scarless treatment of neck swelling due to thyroid nodules
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  • Embolization of bleeding vessels, either due to trauma or operations or due to pseudoaneurysms
  • Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPSS) in acute varicealhaemorrhage or refractory ascites/hepatic hydrothorax in cirrhosis as a bridge to transplant or in Budd-Chiari syndrome.
  • Variceal obliteration in uncontrolled varicealhaemorrhage – BRTO and P/CARTO
  • Portal vein interventions – in portal vein thrombosis
  • Percutaneous mesocaval shunt creation for chronic PV occlusion not amenable to recanalisation
  • Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) and stenting
  • Endobiliary biopsy and ablation
  • Esophageal, duodenal or colonic stenting
  • Radiologically inserted percutaneous gastrostomy
  • Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) or TARE (radioembolization) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
  • Portal vein embolization prior to liver resection to promote compensatory hypertrophy to achieve adequate functional reserve before resection
  • Transjugular liver biopsy (TJLB) in severe coagulopathy/ascites,
  • Bariatric embolisation – embolisation of left gastric artery helps in weight loss and reduceapetite
  • Hemorrhoidal artery embolization for piles
  • Long term, tunnelled peritoneal drain for fluid collection in abdomen
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  • Renal artery angioplasty for renal artery stenosis
  • Renal artery embolization for pseudoaneurysms, AVF
  • Renal angiomyolipoma embolization helps to save kidney from surgery
  • Percutaneous nephrostomy, Antegrade ureteric stenting.
  • Microwave and radiofrequency (RFA) ablation for kidney tumors
  • Prostate artery embolization for benign prostate enlargement using advanced embolisation techniques
  • Testicular vein embolization for varicoceles
  • Uterine artery embolization for postpartum haemorrhage (a real lifesaver! and saves the uterus too)
  • Uterine fibroid embolization – treat fibroid preserving uterus and avoid hysterectomy using advanced embolisation techniques
  • Fallopian tube recanalization for infertility
  • Ovarian vein embolization in pelvic congestion syndrome (chronic lower abdominal/lower back pain/painful intercourse in women)
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  • Ablation of osteoid osteoma.
  • Non-surgical treatment for knee pain - Geniculate artery embolization for osteoarthritic pain in the knee which prevents or delays knee replacement. Helps to move around painkiller free.
  • MSK ablations for soft tissue tumours
  • Vertebroplasty and augmentation for osteoporotic spine.
  • Ozone therapy for disc degenerative disease.
  • USG guided intra articular and nerve root steroid injection for chronic low back pain
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  • Foetal blood sampling
  • Intrauterine foetal blood transfusion
  • Vesico-amniotic shunt for foetal lower urinary tract obstruction
  • Amniocentesis/Amnioinfusion
  • Chorionic villus sampling
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  • Vertebral/sacral/ augmentation in osteoporotic metastatic fractures/ impending collapse
  • Thermal ablation of painful metastatic cancer
  • Nerve plexus alcohol ablations (neurolysis) in chronic pain,
  • Ultrasound guided nerve blocks
  • Interfacetal/transforaminal or epidural steroid injection for chronic back pain
  • Ozone therapy of disc prolapse
  • Percutaneous cervical cordotomy – for severe cancer pain

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Kolis Muller NY Citizen

Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious.

Kolis Muller NY Citizen

Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious.

Kolis Muller NY Citizen

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