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Interventional Radiology
300 Pasteur Drive, Rm H3600
Stanford, CA 94305
Clinic and Procedure Consult Request - (650) 736-9081
Fax: (650) 725-0533 or (650) 736-7734
We will gladly contact the patient to schedule either a procedure or clinic visit and provide appropriate instructions.
Please fax us a referral along with any pertinent medical records. If you have access to be able to send imaging studies (actual images on CD), please forward them to the address above. Our requested images and lab testing is listed below, however we are happy to help coordinate this testing when appropriate.
An initial consultation typically takes 60 - 90 minutes. If your office is scheduling multiple appointments for the same day, please allow enough time between appointments, so that we can provide the best care possible.
For all in-patient referrals:
- For URGENT consults. Please page the IR CONSULT Fellow on call at Pager #27237 (Page Operator Ph: 650-723-4000)
- For Non-urgent consults (1-2 days) fax referral to the IR Nurse Coordinator (650) 736-7734
For administrative issues and fellow applications:
Phone: (650) 723-0728
Labs
- Routine before a procedure: CBC, chemistries as appropriate by disease state, PT/PTT/INR, pregnancy in women of child-bearing age
- Routine before outpatient consulation: CBC, chemistries as appropriate by disease state
In addition to the above:
- Oncology patients: appropriate tumor markers. For patients with primary or metastatic liver carcinomas a complete liver panel is helpful
- Patients with peripheral arterial disease, renovascular hypertension, carotid artery disease: Complete lipid profile
- Patients with DVT: work-up for coagulation disorders
Imaging
- Primary or secondary liver tumors: 4-phase contrast enhanced abdominal CT or gadolinium enhanced abdominal MRI
- Renal tumors (benign and malignant): Contrast enhanced CT or MRI
- Lung tumors: Non-contrast CT
- Fibroids: Contrast enhanced MRI of the pelvis
- Peripheral Arterial disease: Screening: Documented ABI and PVR recording, established disease MRA/CTA of the lower extremities
- Carotid artery disease: Screening: Duplex Ultrasound with doppler of the carotids, established disease MRI/MRA of the neck and the brain
- Renovascular hypertension: MRA of the abdomen/renal arteries
We offer outpatient consultations in the following areas:
- Peripheral vascular disease (extremities, carotids, renals, mesenterics, abdominal and thoracic aneurysms
- Deep venous thrombosis (catheter-directed thrombolysis, temporary IVC filters)
- Complex IVC Filter Retrieval
- Interventional oncology (yttrium radioembolization, RF ablation, chemoembolization
- Varicose veins (laser endovenous ablation)
- Uterine fibroid embolization
- Vascular malformations
- Portal hypertension (TIPS, varix embolization)
- Varicocele embolization
- Pelvic congestion syndrome treatment
