VASCULAR ANGIOPLASTY AND STENTING
A wide variety of vascular narrowings and occlusions are treated by interventional radiologists. These include peripheral arterial narrowings which lead to limb pain/claudication, narrowings in visceral arteries like mesenteric arteries. Vnous occlusions of the periphery or central veins which lead to limb swelling or main venous channels of the body like inferior vena cava etc are dilated and sometimes reinforced by a metallic construct called a stent.