Meet Dr. Adam Lustig, as he discusses his primary clinical interests, his path to interventional radiology, his approach to patient care, and how the field of interventional radiology is evolving.
Hi, my name is Adam Lustig. I'm an interventional radiology physician. I work for medical center radiologist and primarily work at Centa Norfolk General and Centa Lee. I'm the chief of our section and the medical director for our group here at uh Norfolk General. For Ir my primary clinical interests include uh really any embolization procedure. I specifically specialize in prostate artery embolizations, which is a way to shrink the prostate for men with lower urinary tract symptoms due to an enlarged prostate. And so I'm from California. I kind of grew up in San Jose, uh went to undergrad at UC San Diego. I did bioengineering as my undergrad degree which led me to medicine. Uh went to med school in the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. And my fellowship was in, at Chapel Hill, UN C Chapel Hill and interventional radiology. Um My mom is actually an interventional radiology tech. So that kind of drew me to the, the radiology side. I was always interested in kind of computers and, and technology. So radiology really fit the bill. Yeah, I like to give patients the space to kind of um, tell me about who they are in their disease process and kind of meet them where they're at. Um, try to individualize the treatment as much as possible and um try to give them the best result. Yeah. So there are lots of new things in the field of interventional radiology. Um getting into some musculoskeletal ir we're doing a lot of joint embolizations. Uh One that's very popular kind of up and coming is genicular artery embolizations for knee osteoarthritis. I think this is gonna be um a very prevalent procedure um, as this uh sort of more data comes out. Um Another one is hemorrhoid artery embolizations for uh bleeding, hemorrhoids or painful hemorrhoids that otherwise aren't fixed with surgery or aren't good surgical candidates. So, really lots of uh ization procedures that we're finding out you could, you could treat lots of different disease process with.
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