Tony P Smith M.D.
Radiologist | Diagnostic Radiology
4101 N Roxboro St Durham NC, 27704About
Dr. Tony Smith is a radiologist practicing in Durham, NC. Dr. Smith specializes in diagnosing and treating injuries and diseases using medical imaging techniques such as X-Rays, magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography exams. These techniques offer accurate visibility to the inside of the patients body and help to detect otherwise hidden illnesses so that they can be treated quickly and efficiently.
Education and Training
Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences 1994
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR- Vascular and Interventional Radiology
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR- 1986
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Thin-section multidetector CT angiography of renal artery stents.
- Simplified pain-control protocol after uterine artery embolization.
- Atherosclerosis and restenosis: an inflammatory issue.
- Technical innovation. Using a covered stent (wallgraft) to treat pseudoaneurysms of dialysis grafts and fistulas.
- Technical innovation. Using a cutting balloon to treat resistant high-grade dialysis graft stenosis.
- Why coat a stent with polymer?
- Transhepatic catheter access for hemodialysis.
- Antibiotic prophylaxis in interventional radiology.
- Early carotid artery stenting and angioplasty in patients with acute ischemic stroke.
- Long-term outcome of endovascular stenting for symptomatic basilar artery stenosis.
- Primary endovascular therapy with clot retrieval and balloon angioplasty for acute basilar artery occlusion.
- Angiographic diagnosis and endovascular management of nonvariceal gastrointestinal hemorrhage.
- Retrieval of the Günther Tulip and OptEase filters using the recovery cone removal system.
- Embolization in the external carotid artery.
- Sepsis in the interventional radiology patient.
Treatments
- Merci Device, Peripheral Vascular Disease (peripheral Arterial Disease)
Professional Memberships
- Member American Roentgen Ray Society
- Member American Heart Association
- Member Society of Interventional Radiology
- Member Radiological Society of North America
- Member American College of Radiology
Fellowships
- U of California SF, Neurointerventional Radiol, CA, USA 1993
- University of Minnesota, Vasc/Interventional Radiol, MN, USA 1987
- Cardiovascular-Interventional Radiology, University of Minnesota Medical Center 1985
- Neurointerventional Radiology, University of California San Francisco Medical Center 1991
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