- Osteoporosis
- Arthritis
- Stroke RehabilitationThe MCDH program has grown to represent one of the busiest HCA imaging providers in Texas, offering a separate outpatient imaging center and special child-friendly pediatric radiology services in the Medical City Children’s Hospital. In addition, RCND physicians are part of the multidisciplinary team in the new Advanced Primary Stroke Center.
- Emergency CareThe Emergency Department at Medical City has implemented a stroke protocol for the rapid evaluation and treatment of patients who are potential candidates for a treatment that involves administering an FDA-approved clot dissolving medication.
- Pelvic Pain
- Prostate CancerVarious physicians in RCND have trained in nuclear medicine during their residencies or have completed dedicated nuclear medicine residencies and fellowships. Many advanced imaging techniques such as tumor imaging, prostate cancer therapy, clinical research trials, positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), cardiac and seizure imaging are all performed by RCND radiologists.
- UltrasoundAAAs are more common in men, and caused by cigarette smoking, atherosclerosis, high blood pressure or infection. Many aneurysms are without symptoms at the time of diagnosis, but can undergo rapid or unpredictable growth and rupture. An aneurysm can be diagnosed by physical exam, and imaged or monitored with ultrasound, CT, MRI or arteriogram. Repair by traditional open surgery requires a large incision in the abdominal wall and clamping of the aorta, cutting it open, and sewing in an aortic graft bypass.
- MRIIn addition, different information can be added together to yield a 3D image of tumor, vessels, and brain function. (see Functional MRI and Perfusion/Diffusion Imaging).
- RadiologyRadiology Consultants physicians completed specialized training in interpreting imaging procedures and they work under contract with Medical City Dallas Hospital as well as some leading outpatient imaging centers in the Metroplex. The facility bills you for the use of equipment and the personnel involved in your procedure and you receive a separate bill from the radiologists who analyze the images for the doctor who ordered the study. When you registered at the facility, one of the forms you signed stated you would receive a separate bill for RCND services.
- X-Rays
- Nuclear MedicineThe subspecialty of nuclear medicine utilizes radioactive materials in imaging, functional analysis and the treatment of various diseases. A patient is typically injected with a radioactive “tracer” and lies on a camera table for 30-60 minutes during the procedure. The radiopharmaceuticals are often organ-specific, targeting the kidneys, liver and bile ducts, or bones, and as they are excreted by the body they yield images of the appropriate organ. Radiotracers give structure and functional. By measuring the activity of the excreted tracer over time the radiologist can determine, for example, how well the kidneys or lungs are working.
- Computed TomographyPeople from around the world come to Medical City and TheNorth Texas Hospital for Children, for life altering surgery to repair deformities or birth defects of the skull and face. The Radiologists of RCND perform 3D Craniofacial Imaging of these patients to map the underlying bones to help the internationally known team of plastic surgeons, neurosurgeons, and craniofacial surgeons and staff of the Dallas Craniofacial Center to plan their surgical approaches. Computed tomography (CT) is performed of the head, and 3D processing produces images such as these which can be examined in depth to help characterize the skull and facial deformities.
- Radiation TherapyIn addition, high-dose radioactive medicines can be designed to go only to a particular tumor or organ, delivering maximum radiation therapy directly to the targeted cancer cells.
- Interventional RadiologyInterventional radiologists use image-guided catheters, needles and balloons in the diagnosis and treatment of different diseases. All RCND interventional radiologists are Board Certified and have earned certificates of added qualifications (CAQs) in vascular and interventional radiology.
- HysterectomyLarge fibroids of the uterus can cause pain and dysfunctional bleeding, which can lead to a hysterectomy. An alternate palliative or pre-surgical procedure called Uterine Fibroid Embolization, now exists which gives a woman another option for treatment or lessening the risk of bleeding with directed fibroid removal. Small catheters are placed in the vessels in the groin and advanced into the arteries supplying the fibroid tumors of the uterus, and microparticles injected directly into the fibroid vessels, interrupting blood flow to the fibroid causing it to shrink and or be relatively less vascular, making risk of blood loss during surgical removal less likely. The RCND section of interventional radiology evaluates women for potential therapy, and are experienced in this cutting-edge therapy.
- Sports MedicineAfter completing their radiology residency, physicians may elect to spend additional years training in musculoskeletal radiology, which focuses on the bones and joints of the skeleton. Techniques may include specialized MRI and CT joint imagine and arthrography in the evaluation of sports injuries, joint pain and arthritis.
- Back Pain