[Vascular interventional radiology]

Percutaneous transluminal recanalization of vessels (angioplasty) has been invented by radiologists. Their recent huge development may conceal 120 others endovascular interventional procedures performed by radiologists, surgeons, cardiologists, anesthetists. A variety of interventional endovascular instruments have been produced and used in a wide field of pathologies: balloons for proximal clamping, distal embolization by particles, arterial desobstruction by seeking devices, propping of vascular lumen by stenting, in situ infusion of drugs (fibrinolysis), filters, foreign body retrieval systems. Training in vascular interventional radiology must include experience with endovascular instruments, but also instruction in radiation effects and protection, practice in angiographic lab and perfect knowledge of clinical manifestations and natural history of the disease to be treated.