What is interventional radiology and functional medicine?
Today, interventional radiology allows many diseases to be treated without the need for surgery or even anesthesia, and functional medicine is being followed with greater interest by people who understand the importance of preventive medicine.
What is Functional Medicine?
In the functional medicine approach, a personalized medicine approach is introduced by taking into account the genetic and metabolic characteristics of the person, and because of this characteristic, it is considered the medical approach of the future. Functional medicine aims to provide more effective treatment by supporting the issues of being person, lifestyle and dietary changes that are not much emphasized in classical medicine.
The functional medicine approach benefits many diseases
Functional medicine is especially useful in chronic, long-term inflammatory diseases. In addition, it can be very effective in a broad spectrum of autoimmune diseases, from hashimoto, fibromyalgia, rheumatic diseases to heart disease, where our body’s own immune system attacks itself.
In addition, diseases such as inability to lose weight, insulin resistance, dry skin, hair loss, excessive premenstrual sensitivities (premenstrual syndrome), estrogen dominance, fibrocystic breasts or chronic fatigue, which are not yet at the level of serious illness, but can affect the quality of life can significantly affect people’s health can also be treated from a functional medicine perspective.
What is Interventional Radiology?
Interventional radiology is a new branch of science in which diseases that used to be treated only with surgery can be treated with non-surgical methods with the development of modern medical technology.
Diseases can be treated with modern methods without surgery
Treatment of varicose veins, treatment of breast masses (fibroadenoma), treatment of thyroid nodules and some cancers, especially liver cancer, can now be treated with local anesthesia alone without surgery.
Varicose veins treatment: Capillary varicose veins and varicose veins that are quite large and fluffy from the skin can be treated with laser under local anesthesia under ultrasound guidance. Patients can be treated in just 20 minutes and return to their daily lives.
Thyroid nodules: Thyroid nodules are well suited for non-surgical treatment, especially if they are benign. Thyroid nodules no larger than 4 cm can be treated in one session. Nodules are dried with the effect of heat by radio frequency or microwave methods.
Breast masses: Non-surgical treatments are often used for benign masses. Fluid-filled or solid benign masses can be treated very successfully without surgery. Because the treatments are performed with a special vacuum needle through a needle hole, they can only be performed under local anesthesia. This method also does not cause any scars on the body. For this reason, in recent years, women have preferred to have their fibroadenoma-like masses removed without surgery. In addition, breast cancers that are noticed very early in the last period can also be treated with a technique called cryoablation, in which the mass is dried into ice.