Interventional technology is the latest technological achievement of modern medicine, which can reverse the dilemma of internal medicine’s inability to change the tissue structure, and also avoid the “drastic” damage to the organism by surgery. It causes very little damage to the body, but the therapeutic effects are very reliable and significant! As a result, interventionalists have become the “meat and potatoes” of today’s medical world. ”Our job is to manage the body’s inherent pipelines and create new ones.
The ‘plumber’!” Wang Ge, director of the interventional unit at the city’s central people’s hospital, joked humorously as soon as we met. Wang Ge, Interventional Vascular Department, Huizhou First People’s Hospital He said that the Downtown People’s Hospital exclusively introduced a large C-arm digital subtraction angiography (DSA) machine from Siemens (SIEMENS) of Germany in 2001 and established the first interventional room in Huizhou. At present, the Interventional Unit of Downtown People’s Hospital has 3 senior title personnel and 3 intermediate title personnel, forming a professional and technical team of the most cutting-edge interventional medicine in Huizhou, and is one of the standing units of the Interventional Branch of Guangdong Medical Association. During 10 years of experience, the department has accumulated rich experience in treatment and has certain advantages in the interventional treatment of emergency haemorrhage, lower limb arterial occlusion, gastrointestinal tract and biliary obstruction. The application of interventional technology in the field of hemorrhagic diseases has won the Huizhou Science and Technology Progress Award. Lower limb arteriovenous occlusion has formed its own treatment characteristics. Such as diabetic foot, they use interventional treatment technology, effectively reducing the patient’s amputation rate and amputation plane. They have been able to master the use of intracavitary isolation of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm, which represents one of the high-risk procedures in interventional disciplines. The representative work of high risk technology of interventional discipline –
The comprehensive treatment of portal hypertension in liver cirrhosis has also been gradually developed here. As a senior “plumber” of human body, “foreman” Wang Ge told us that they manage all the ducts of human body, including blood vessels, trachea, esophagus, intestine, bile duct, ureter, fallopian tube, nasolacrimal duct and so on. The four major technical means of managing ducts, such as: unblocking (angioplasty, thrombolysis, perfusion), plugging (sealing, embolization), reconstruction (fistula, bypass, drainage, diversion), and elimination (ablation, excision and aspiration) have been widely used in clinical practice here. Currently, the main diseases they treat using interventional techniques include tumors and vascular diseases. Tumor interventional therapy is now widely used to treat intracranial and extracranial malignant tumors, breast tumors, lung tumors, esophageal tumors, liver tumors, gallbladder tumors, pancreatic tumors, gastrointestinal tumors, kidney tumors, pelvic and extremity malignant tumors, etc.; liver tumor interventional therapy has become the preferred treatment for patients who cannot be surgically removed. Director Wang Ge introduced that interventional treatment of common tumors includes liver tumors, lung tumors, brain tumors, stomach tumors, intestinal tumors, kidney tumors, uterine tumors, primary and bone metastases, etc. Interventional treatment of malignant biliary obstruction is the specialty of the interventional unit of Downtown People’s Hospital. For a variety of interventions to treat primary liver cancer, their common interventions currently include transcatheter arterial embolization chemotherapy and percutaneous ablation therapy. In the field of vascular diseases, endoluminal interventional therapy has become the first choice. According to incomplete statistics, it has accounted for more than 80% of the cases, and the efficacy is aptly described as “immediate”. Interventional techniques for angiography of various parts of the body have unique advantages in detecting arterial and venous stenosis, thrombosis, aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations, and are effective and have few complications through intravascular thrombolysis, embolization, angioplasty (PTA), and embolization of hemangiomas and arteriovenous malformations. “These vascular lesions that used to require surgical vessel replacement or vessel anastomosis to treat, can now be treated more easily and safely through interventional techniques.” Wang Ge happily told the reporter.