Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Vascular and Interventional Radiology (VIR) is a specialized clinical service that uses image-guided interventions to provide the finest and minimally invasive procedures to treat and diagnose various diseases by highly trained and specialized physicians and allied health professionals.

It has become a leading specialty designed to minimize hospital stays and improve patient recovery time. VIR performs a wide range of image-guided procedures with a scope from complex advanced to simple interventions for both pediatric and adults, including vascular and non-vascular, arterial & venous diseases, oncology, transplant, emergencies, and a neuro-interventional.

Mission of VIR

Vascular and Interventional radiology revolutionizes health care by continually inventing new image-guided treatments for the benefit of the patients to the next level.

Vision of VIR

The mission of the Vascular Interventional Radiology is to improve the health of the public through pioneering advances in image-guided therapy.

Division of VIR Operation Capacity

• The VIR is performing more than 14000 of procedures annually, more than 1200 procedures per month.

• 24 hours 7 days services for inpatient, outpatient & emergencies, adults and pediatric.

• 5 Angio machine, 6 Ultrasound machine divided between KAMC & KASCH

• The Services provided in VIR are all angiography procedures, image-guided therapeutic, angioplasty, stenting, arterial & venous access, biopsy and related procedures.

Division of VIR Scope of Services

VIR performs a wide range of image-guided procedures with a scope from a complex to a simple interventions for both pediatric and adult include

• Percutaneous vascular interventions

• Nonvascular interventions in the genitourinary tract

• Nonvascular interventions in the biliary tract

• Nonvascular interventions in the gastrointestinal tract

• Simple to Complex Venous accesses (including tunneled line and port placement)

• Dialysis access intervention and creation including endo AVF, AV graft declotting procedures and AV fistula intervention
  

• Endoluminal management of abdominal and thoracic aortic pathology (EVAR, TEVAR)

• Cerebrovascular angiography

• Carotid and great vessel interventions including carotid stenting

• Embolotherapy for bleeding, malformations, oncology, varicose.. etc

• IR procedures related to men and women's health

• Pain management

• Advanced Interventional oncology including tumors of the liver, kidney, and lung, including chemoembolization (TACE), yttrium-90 (Y90), microwave, radiofrequency ablation (RFA), cryoablation, and irreversible electroporation (IRE)

• Biopsies and drainages.

• Other of tubes and lines

VIR Clinical Programs

• Radiology-Oncology Accelerated Track Program - This program is dedicated to help patients with newly diagnosed/suspected malignancy to access quality care with the intent to reduce delays in management. The Medical Imaging Department would have special arrangement to do imaging studies in an urgent and organized way.

• Suspected Cancer Program

• VIR are involved in numerous multidisciplinary meetings as follows:
  

  • Portal Hypertension meeting
  • HCC Tumor Boad meeting
  • Thoracic Oncology Tumor Board
  • Neurovascular Multidisciplinary Committee meeting
  • Gi Tumor Board Meeting

VIR clinic: longitudinal service for our patients, including consultation, initial evaluation in an outpatient clinic.

VIR Achievements and Awards

• VIR Physicians has successfully proven their expertise with the NEW IR cases such as endo AVF creation, graft de-clotting procedures, Cryoablation, PD catheter insertions

• Well experienced, recognized and of high caliber Interventional Radiologists who are performing our VIR procedures using our state of the art machines and equipment used for various interventional cases.

• VIR Physicians represented National and International Conferences.

• Recognition for huge support to reduce the waiting time and patient turnover with significant bed crisis.

• Recognition from Medicine department for immense support to the division of Nephology by a various procedures including kidney biopsies, hemodialysis procedures, peritoneal dialysis catheter and others.

• Award and recognitions for number of Interventionalist for the best study, abstract, best teachers or recognition of contribution to scientific societies.

• VIR outreach program services (Al Hassa, Jeddah, Dammam and Madinah)

• Reference Center in certain procedures ( IVC filter removal, PD catheter insertions)

VIR Research and Publications

More than 60 papers published in peer review journals, 23 posters and 20 editorial locally and internationally such as:

• Percutaneous Endovascular Aortic Repair with Left Carotid Chimney for Mycotic Arch Aneurysm and Aortoesophageal Fistula in a Pediatric Patient.

• Endovascular management of arterial injuries related to venous access: Retrospective review of 10-year single center experience. Arab J Intervent Radiol 2018;2:8-13

• How I Do it: Percutaneous image-guided peritoneal catheter placement. Arab J Intervent Radiol 2017;1:49-54

• Percutaneous transhepatic biodegradable stent placement for benign anastomotic biliary strictures: Short-term outcomes of a single-institution experience. Arab J Intervent Radiol 2019;3:19-22

• Alqubaisi AK, Al-Dulaigan E, Arabi M. Combined trans splenic and trans arterial catheter-directed thrombolysis for acute mesenteric venous thrombosis. Arab J Intervent Radiol 2019;3:36-7

• How effective is a departmental registry follow-up form for improving retrieval of inferior vena cava filters? A single-center experience. Arab J Intervent Radiol 2018;2:71-4

• Endovascular Management of Arterial Injuries Related to Venous Access:A Retrospective Review of 10-Year Single Center Experience," February2018, AJIR

• Peri-internventional Use of Capturex Filter Catheter During Removal ofThrombosed Inferior Vena Cava Filters and Venous Thrombectomy:Preliminary Results of a Single Institution Experience," electronic posterpresented at Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR)

• Pharmacomechanical thrombectomy of superficial venous thrombosis in Sturge-Weber and Klipple-Trenuanay overlap syndrome. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2017 Nov; 28(11):1609-1611

• Percutaneous image-guided peritoneal dialysis catheter insertion: a single-institution experience. Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Volume 28, Issue 2 , S143 - S144 (Scientific abstract presented in SIR 2017).

• Percutaneous Approach for Removal of a Migrated Cystogastric Stent from a Pancreatic Pseudocyst: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. J Radiol Case Rep. 2016 Feb 29; 10(2):18-25.

• Establishing IR led venous practice in a large teaching hospital in Saudi Arabia. Bashir O, Alzahrani Y, Almoaiqel M, Arabi M, Qazi S, Refaat S. Educational poster at SIR 2017, Washington DC, USA. (Abstract No. 751)

• Role of Interventional Radiology in Removing Unwanted and Misplaced Medical Devices. Bashir O, Dulaigan E, Salman R, Arabi M, Almoaiqel M. Accepted for poster presentation at PAIRS 2017 meeting, Dubai, UAE.

• Percutaneous Direct Intrahepatic Porto Systemic Shunt (DIPS) In Chronic Budd Chiari: Techniques and Report of Four Cases. Arabi M, Dulaigan E, Alzahrani, Qazi S. Accepted for poster presentation at PAIRS 2017 meeting, Dubai, UAE.

VIR Leadership

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