Interventional Radiology

Bruce Bordlee, MD
bbordlee@tulane.edu
Assistant Professor
Associate Program Director
Vascular and Interventional Radiology

James Caridi, MD
jcaridi@tulane.edu
Chairman of Radiology
Professor of Vascular & Interventional Radiology

Brookes Ezell, MD
mezell@tulane.edu
Assistant Professor
Section Chief Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Clinic Hours: Friday 9:00am to 12:00 pm.  Available 24hr, 7 days a week. Contact Theresa Adams (504) 988-3442

Available Procedures:

• Ablation: Cryotherapy, RFA, Microwave
• Angiography: diagnostic and therapeutic
• Angioplasty and stent placement
• Biliary diagnosis and treatment including transhepatic cholangiography, stenting, biopsy, stone removal, cholecystostomy, stricture dilatation
• Bone marrow biopsy
• BRTO
• Carbon dioxide imaging  (https://www.backtable.com/podcast/70/co2-angiography)
• CTO/CLI procedures (chronic total occlusion/chronic limb ischemia)
• Deep vein thrombosis
• Dialysis access diagnosis and percutaneous repair
• Embolization therapy
• EVAR: endovascular aortic repair
• Fiducial placement pre radiotherapy
• Foreign body removal
• Gastrostomy and Gastrojejunostomy tubes
• J tube replacement
• Imaging guided biopsies and drainages
• IVC filter placement and removal
• Nephrostomy / neproureteral / JJ catheter placement
• Pelvic congestion syndrome
• Portal vein diagnostic and interventional procedures including portal vein embolization
• Pulmonary embolus therapy
• TACE: transarterial chemoembolization
• Thrombolysis
• TIPS
• Venous access catheters including extreme access
• Y90 TARE: Transarterial radioembolization