Arthur B Fontaine MD
Interventional Radiologist | Vascular & Interventional Radiology
9602 Stockdale Hwy Bakersfield CA, 93311About
Dr. Arthur Fontaine is an interventional radiologist practicing in Bakersfield, CA. Dr. Fontaine specializes in minimally invasive, targeted treatments. Interventional radiologists use X-Rays, MRIs and other advanced imaging to put catheters in the body in order to treat the source of the disease internally. Many conditions that once required surgery can now have less risk, less pain and fewer invasions when treated by an interventional radiologist.
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RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Endovascular techniques in the damage control setting.
- Prospective randomized comparison of valved versus nonvalved peripherally inserted central vein catheters.
- Treatment of chylothorax: percutaneous catheterization and embolization of the thoracic duct.
- Fatal pulmonary embolus after TIPS revision.
- Peripherally inserted central catheters with distal versus proximal valves: prospective randomized trial.
- CT of a renal artery pseudoaneurysm caused by a stab wound.
- Human surface electrogastrograms: ac and dc measurements.
- The detection of auditory evoked responses using a matched filter.
- Treatment of iatrogenic superior vena cava syndrome with a vascular stent.
- Prototype stent: in vivo swine studies in the biliary system.
- Vascular stent prototype: in vivo swine studies.
- Renal artery origin from the superior mesenteric artery.
- Update on the use of percutaneous nephrostomy/balloon dilation for the treatment of renal transplant leak/obstruction.
- Use of polyetherurethane to improve the biocompatibility of vascular stents.
- Use of CT-guided marking of the portal vein in creation of 150 transjugular
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