Keeping Your Legs Healthy & Attractive Chronic venous insufficiency is a condition that causes decreased blood flow from the leg veins to the heart. The decreased blood flow causes the blood to pool in the leg veins, which can lead to varicose veins. Special valves in the blood vessels of […]
Vertebroplasty: One Patient’s Story of How It Changed His Life Are you suffering from agonizing pain that is interfering with your quality of life? Are you in search of a way to relieve your pain due to osteoporosis? Read one man’s story of how he went from bed-ridden to enjoying […]
Vascular Clinic with Catheterization Laboratory: Minimally Invasive Procedures For Your Vascular Health Are you experiencing leg pain, vein disease, leg ulcers, swelling, and skin discoloration of legs due to venous insufficiency, or blood clotting? Patients with signs of peripheral artery disease and other vascular diseases are advised for a scheduled […]
Defining Interventional Radiology: Meet Your Local IR Doctors “I was having leg pain whenever I walked. My primary care physician referred me to a local interventional radiologist, who she said could help me with this problem.” – Caroline R. Interventional radiologists tend to fly below the healthcare radar, but they […]
Aortic Stent Graft: A Minimally Invasive Procedure for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm “After Dr. Dicker showed me the before and after pictures, I was shocked. I probably wouldn’t have made it through the year.” –Mark Fillmore, Prescott Valley Do you feel any deep, constant abdominal or back pain? Is the pain […]
Interventional Radiologists: Pioneers of Minimally-Invasive Treatments for Peripheral Vascular Disease Homer Stevens could not walk far because his legs would tire out quickly and his toe was black, swollen and very painful. His quality of life suffered. His podiatrist suggested that he might have a circulation problem and recommended he […]
Chemoembolization: A Minimally Invasive Approach to Treating Cancer As vascular specialists, interventional radiologists target specific illnesses and diseases through image guidance and small devices, which they use through blood vessels to reach a part of the body that requires treatment. One such treatment is chemoembolization, a minimally invasive procedure performed […]
Treating Pelvic Congestion Syndrome According to John Hopkins Medicine, an estimated one-third of all women will experience chronic pelvic pain during their lifetime. This condition is associated with many comorbidities, including pelvic congestion syndrome (PCS). The pain from pelvic congestion occurs when blood accumulates in the veins of your pelvis, […]
Dr. Matthew Dicker Dr. Matthew Dicker grew up in Milwaukee, WI and received his undergraduate degree from University of Wisconsin. After attending Saint Louis University Medical School, he completed four years of a general surgery residency at George Washington University Hospital and, subsequent to that, he completed a diagnostic radiology […]
Dr. David Lloyd Dr. David Lloyd split time growing up in Salt Lake City, UT and Walnut Creek, CA. After graduating magna cum laude from Brigham Young University, he received his M.D. from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. Following his medical school education, Dr. Lloyd completed his diagnostic radiology […]