Centre for Radiology

Clinic for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

The Clinic for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology is a central facility for all diagnostic, minimally invasive and interventional therapy requirements of clinics and specialist outpatient clinics of Stuttgart Clinical Centre in general radiology. In addition, it is also available for all ambulatory patients. The clinic is equipped with advanced devices, such as Flash-CT, high-performance MRI, emergency room CT, PACS (picture archiving & communication system) and voice recognition system. For interventional procedures, there is a special hybrid surgery concept available.

For the patients there are four outpatient day hospital beds and nine inpatient ones, independently-operated beds available at Katharinenhospital. The clinic is certified for interventional and minimally invasive procedures by the German Radiological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Interventionelle Radiology) and is also a certified member of several interdisciplinary centres. Both the medical director and his deputy have the full training authority of the German Radiological Society and CIRSE (Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe) regarding interventional radiology.

Treatment and care emphases

  • Hepatic tumours, hepatic cirrhosis (liver centre)
  • Myoma diseases
  • Haemato-oncological diseases
  • Gastrointestinal diseases
  • Renal and urinary diseases
  • Musculosceletal diseases
  • Polytrauma care
  • Patients in the neurological, accident and visceral surgery
  • Patients in the ENT, maxiallary and ophthalmology field
  • Vascular diseases (Vascular Centre): arterial occlusive disease, aortic aneurysm
  • Vascular tumours, AV malformations
  • Mamma diagnostics
  • Phlebology
  • Dermatological diseases

Special offers and facilities

  • Minimally invasive vascular therapy of the diabetic foot
  • PTA / stent for renal artery stenosis
  • Stent-grafts in aortic diseases (EVAR, TEVAR)
  • Implantation of haemodialysis catheters
  • MRI of the heart together with the Clinic for Heart and Vascular Diseases
  • Time-resolved magnetic resonance angiography
  • MRI-diffusion imaging of hepatic and pancreatic tumours
  • Polytrauma diagnosis with multislice spiral CT
  • CT-guided interventions
  • Central ultrasound
  • MRI diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease
  • Myoma therapy, myoma centre
  • Lung metastases therapy
  • Renal denervation in uncontrolled hypertension
  • CT coronary angiography

Distinguished procedures in diagnosis and therapy

  • Trans-arterial chemoembolization (TACE) in tumours of the liver and kidney
  • Locoregional thermal ablation of liver, lung, kidney
  • TIPSS in liver cirrhosis
  • Special re-opening procedures for vascular closure
  • SIRT (selective interstitial radiotherapy), together with the Clinic for Nuclear Medicine
  • Recanalization procedure in cases of peripheral vascular closure and with stent implantation
  • Cardiac CT
  • Uterine myoma embolization
  • Treatment of peripheral and body stem vascular tumours (AV malformation)

Quality assurance

  • Certification by the German Society of Interventional Radiology
  • Certification of the Vascular Centre by the German Society of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
  • Certifications of the Bowel Centre and the Prostate Cancer Centre, Pancreas Centre, Breast Centre, Centre for Gynaecological Cancer

Hospital numbers

2015 2016 2017  
9 9 9 Available Beds, inpatient
476 464 479 Inpatient Cases
3.2 3.0 3.2 Length of stay in days

Selected services (case number)

2015 2016 2017  
69.000 64.879 62.747 Conventional x-ray diagnostics
22.800 21.134 20.720 Sectional imaging techniques (CT, MRT, US)
732 626 506 DSA
1.238 1.164 1.180 Interventions (without CT)
64 108 95 Aortic interventions