Interventional Radiology has revolutionarized the management of the chronic liver disease.

It may be chronic alcoholic liver disease or childhood liver failure due to Budd chiary syndrome.

These patients are suffering due to liver failure which results in the fluid collection in the abdomen. The flip tends to get collected again after repeated drainage procedures.

TIPSS or DIPSS are the shunt procedures offered for these patients based on their level of fitness and tolerance level. This decision is done after a thorough evaluation of the patient on imaging and blood investigations.

There are palliative treatment options available for Obstructive jaundice due to late stages of cancer of the liver, pancreas or gall bladder. In the late stages when the cancer is inoperable, the suffering of the patients can be minimized with drainage procedures like PTBD or stenting. These will give the way to obstructed bile and give the patient relief from the symptoms of jaundice. Though we cannot cure the disease, at least we can make the remaining life tolerable.

A liver tumor - cancer that is small in size than 5 cms can be completely burned with a needle using technique of Radio Frequency Ablation-RFA. If there is no spread of the tumour to the surrounding area and has a limited involvement, RFA offers complete treatment and avoids need for surgical removal of tumour.

A large liver cancer which cannot be operated, can also be treated with TACE. Where in a chemotherapeutic drug is delivered directly into the blood vessel supplying the liver cancer. This is more effective at the same time the dose of the drug required is very less hence causes less side effects.