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‘The big advantage to interventional radiology is that it’s less invasive,” said Dr. Douglas Markert, an interventional radiologist at Fauquier Hospital. “We can do many medical procedures using tiny catheters that once required surgery.
“Now, because we don’t have to make incisions, there are fewer complications and shorter recoveries.”
When Markert came to Fauquier Hospital in 1999, he was the first of his kind of specialist there. But the specialty is growing so rapidly that two other interventional radiologists now serve on the hospital’s staff, along with a handful of traditional radiologists.
Traditional radiologists are experts in interpreting body images formed by such technologies as X-ray, CT, MRI and ultrasound. They spend most of their time poring over images, formulating diagnoses to support the efforts of clinical physicians. Their contact with patients is fairly limited.
Interventional radiologists, on the other hand, see patients much like many other physicians do, and can both diagnose and treat certain conditions.
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