History
The Memphis Interventional Radiology Clinic (MIRC) is an outpatient-style clinic offering convenience and choice to physicians, and to patients who refer themselves. MIRC offers 2 convenient locations in Memphis, Tennessee and Southaven, Mississippi. The Memphis clinic location is located 6027 Walnut Grove Road, Suite 114, near Baptist Memorial Hospital - Memphis. In September 2006, the Memphis Interventional Radiology Clinic opened an office at Baptist Memorial Hospital - DeSoto, located in Southaven, Mississippi. MIRC is the only clinic of its kind in the area, and one of only a few clinics regionally to perform certain highly specialized procedures. All MIRC physicians are board-certified in their areas of specialty.
Specialties
Interventional Radiology Interventional radiologists are board-certified physicians who specialize in minimally invasive, targeted treatments. They offer the most in-depth knowledge of the least invasive treatments available coupled with diagnostic and clinical experience across all specialties. They use X-rays, MRI and other imaging to advance a catheter in the body, usually in an artery, to treat at the source of the disease internally. As the inventors of angioplasty and the catheter-delivered stent, which were first used in the legs to treat peripheral arterial disease, interventional radiologists pioneered minimally invasive modern medicine. Today many conditions that once required surgery can be treated less invasively by interventional radiologists. Interventional radiology treatments offer less risk, less pain and less recovery time compared to open surgery.