“Is an angiographic embolization invasive?”
My friend needed to have a kidney trauma treated after a fight and the doctor wanted to treat it with an angiographic embolization. Is this an invasive procedure?
1 Answer
CriticalCareSurgeonKidneyhealth
No. Angiographic embolization is not "invasive." The term entered the medical lexicon about thirty years ago when laparoscopy and catheter based therapies started to replace standard operations in the abdomen and chest that used large incisions to gain access to the organs. The new techniques used smaller incisions and were called "minimally invasive" surgeries. Catheter based therapies, such as angiographic embolization, are considered non-invasive.
