Interventional radiologist

Biography

Interventional radiologist at Rabin Medical Center.

Specialization:
Interventional radiology in oncology. Vascular interventional radiology.

Education:
Brandeis University School of Medicine (Waltam, USA) – graduated with honors.

Residency:
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Bethesda, USA).

Internship: 
Dr. Elkanave did his internship at the Faculty of Medicine at Tufts University (Boston, USA), an internship in diagnostic radiology at MC. A. Einstein (Philadelphia, USA); in vascular and interventional radiology – at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, USA).

Procedures performer:

  • Vascular Interventions
  • Venous access (tunneled, non-tunneled, PICC, ports, hickman).
  • Mediport
  • Hemodialysis access catheters
  • Inferior vena cava filter placement and retrieval
  • Inferior vena cava filter retrieval
  • Foreign body retrieval
  • Dialysis access intervention-temporary and permanent catheters.
  • Peripheral (and central) venous and arterial angioplasty.
  • Pharmacological and other thrombolytic treatment, thrombectomy devices
  • Emergency embolization (trauma, gastrointestinal bleeding, hemoptysis, pseudoaneurysm, others).
  • Selective embolization (Prostate, hemmorroids, uterine myomas, varicose veins, pelvic congestion, portal vein)
  • Chemoembolization (transcatheter arterial chemoembolization [TACE]) – liver
  • Radioembolization (selective internal radiotherapy)-liver-using Y90
  • Radioembolization using tcmaa99 mapping (prior ttreatment)
  • Various arterial interventions
  • Transcervical Liver Biopsy.
  • Liver biopsy with pressure
  • Non-vascular interventions
  • Biopsy (including thyroid, lung, bone, liver, kidney, adrenal, pancreas, lymph nodes, retroperitoneal)
  • Biopsy complex
  • Abscess drainage
  • Paracentesis, thoracentesis
  • Thoracostomy
  • Pleurodesis
  • Pleurex cathter placmenet for acites or pleurodesis. Effusion
  • Biliary interventions (including percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography [PTC], drainage, stents, biopsy, tube checks and replacements, dilation)
  • GU interventions (including nephrostomy, nephroureterostomy, tube checks and replacements, nephrostolithotomy route placement and dilatation)
  • Ureteral intervention (including ureteroplasty, ureteral stents)
  • Gastrostomy and gastrojejunostomy (percutaneous placement, tube checks and replacements)
  • Cholecystostomy (with checks and tube replacements)
  • Cyst/lymphocyte aspiration, drainage, sclerosis (including controls and tube replacements)
  • Tumor ablation (including radiofrequency, microwave, Cryo ablation) – liver, kidney, lung, soft tissue
  • Ablation specially nanoknife (I. R. e)