Fernández TE, Méndez GBA, Rivas RL

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Interventional Radiology is a challenge within the specialty of Imaging and Medical Radiophysics. The science of diagnostic images or imaging, formerly Radiology, is a field that today experiences an extraordinary expansion as a result of the accelerated development of the scientific-technical revolution. The vertiginous development of this specialty gave rise to the imaging, thus opened the path of images as a diagnostic and therapeutic medium. The objective is to explain how the techno-scientific development has impacted this branch of the medical tasks, revealing the new conflicts that in the ethical order are presented to these specialists. The imaging presents its credentials as a medical specialty that contributes not only to perform more and more diagnoses with high levels of precision, but also allows interventional action which focuses mainly on the treatment of diseases, through the use of minimally invasive surgical procedures guided by imaging techniques to perform diagnostic and therapeutic radiology such as: Location of injuries and collections, marking of injuries, CAAF, Percutaneous biopsies, aspiration of collections, realization of vascular accesses, dilatation of stenosis, extraction of foreign bodies, embolizations, chemoembolization, cryoablation, radiofrequency ablation, peritoneal dialysis, shunting Biliary angioplasty and stenting, thrombolysis always considering the ethical factors of the doctor-patient relationship. It is concluded that Interventional Radiology is capable of delivering satisfactory results, where the corresponding ethical factors prevail to plan the most convenient therapeutic strategy.