Dr. Yaser Naji
Consultant Interventional Radiologist
Languages
- Arabic, English
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Biography
Dr. Yaser Naji, is a Consultant Interventional Radiologist. He earned his medical and Master in Diagnostic Radiology degrees from Alexandria University Faculty of Medicine.
He moved to the UK in 1999 and earned fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists in London.
He completed Interventional Radiology Fellowship at Birmingham’s University Teaching Hospitals in 2005.
In 2006, he was appointed as a Consultant Interventional Radiologist, at London North West Healthcare Trust, which has been selected as one of seven centres in London to perform complex aortic and peripheral endovascular procedures. In 2007, he was appointed as the Clinical Lead for Vascular & Interventional Radiology for this unit.
Speciality
Consultant Interventional Radiologist
Degrees
1993 – 1999 College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Iraq M.B.ch.B/Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery
Areas of Expertise
Clinical expertise includes minimally invasive, non-surgical treatment of the following conditions:
- Varicose vein
- Spider and superficial veins
- Fibroid and adenomyosis
- Varicocele
- Prostate enlargement
- Angioplasty of lower limb arteries
- Arteriogenic impotence
Education
FRCR
London. UK. Nov. 2002
Fellowship in Interventional Radiology – Queen Elizabeth, Selly Oak and Heartland’s Hospitals. Birmingham.
UK. Nov. 2005
ECFMG (Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates) certificate
USA. March 2010
B.Ch.B – Faculty Of Medicine.
Alexandria University. Egypt. Nov. 1991
MS of Radiodiagnosis
Alexandria University. Egypt. Apr. 1997
Interventional Radiology Procedures
If I would list first the commonest procedures, I would say:
- Image guided biopsies
- Vascular access (PICC, ports, Perm Cath, feeding and Hickman lines)
- Endovenous ablation of varicose veins
- Sclerotherapy for spider veins
- Percutaneous drainages of collections
- Varicocele embolization
- Pelvic varices embolization in women
- Fibroid embolization
- Angioplasty for occluded / narrowed arteries
- DVT thrombolysis (mechanical or chemical)
- Embolization for post-operative / traumatic bleeding
- IVC filter insertion
- Percutaneous nephrostomy
- Chemo-embolization for liver tumours
✔️ Please find below an extensive list of Interventional Radiology procedures that can be done for different medical specialities.
– Most of these procedures will be performed under local anaesthesia.
General Surgery
- Percutaneous cholecystostomy
- Percutaneous RFA for benign thyroid nodules
- Percutaneous imaging-guided drainages for abscesses / collections
- Percutaneous imaging-guided drainages for postoperative collections
- Embolization of operative / postoperative bleeding
- Embolization, pre-operative for vascular lesions
- Balloon dilatation of benign oesophageal narrowing
- Embolization of traumatic bleeding (splenic, hepatic, renal, pelvic …etc)
- Percutaneous coeliac axis block for inoperable pancreatic tumours causing debilitating back pain
- Percutaneous internal / external biliary drainage
- Percutaneous biliary stents
- Tunnelled central lines for cases requiring long term IV access
- IVC filter insertion pre-operatively for patients with DVT
Vascular Surgery
- Endovenous Ablation for varicose veins (RFA, EVLA, MOCA)
- Sclerotherapy for spider veins
- Sclerotherapy for recurrent varicose veins after stripping
- Peripheral arterial angiogram & angioplasty (including arteries of the foot and planter arch)
- Thrombolysis (mechanical & catheter-directed) for recent arterial and venous clots
- IVC filter insertion & retrieval
- Recanalization of blocked veins (IVC, Pelvic veins, upper limb veins)
- EVAR (Endovascular aortic aneurysm repair) for ruptured and non-ruptured aortic aneurysms
- Diagnose and treat leaks following EVAR
- Treat aneurysms of other arteries, e.g renal, splenic, hepatic …. etc
Colorectal Surgery
- Mesenteric angiogram & embolization. Diagnose & treat obscure GI bleeding
- Embolisation of acute GIT bleeding
- Percutaneous drainages for postoperative collections
- Embolisation of operative / postoperative bleeding
- Embolization, pre-operative for vascular lesions
Haematology
- US / CT guided biopsy
- Venous access lines
Urology
- Percutaneous nephrostomy & antegrade ureteric stent insertion
- Percutaneous varicocele embolization
- PCNL access
- Pre-operative embolization of vascular renal masses
- Embolization of operative / postoperative bleeding (e.g. post PCNL)
- Embolization for haematuria resistant to medical treatment
- Retrieval of ureteric stents not accessible from below
- Angioplasty for arteriogenic cases of impotence
- Prostate artery embolization (PAE) for benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH)
ENT
- Embolization of epistaxis resistant to conservative measures
- Radiologically Inserted Gastrostomy (RIG)
- Pre-operative embolization of vascular H&N lesions
- Embolization of operative / postoperative bleeding
Endocrinology
- Localisation of insulinoma
- Adrenal venous sampling
Obstetric & Gynae
- Embolization for post-partum Haemorrhage (PPH)
- Embolization for uterine AV malformations
- Elective pre-op iliac balloon insertion for cases of placenta accreta
- Uterine artery embolization for Fibroids and Adenomyosis
- FTC (Fallopian Tube Canalisation)
- Diagnose and treat pelvic congestion syndrome (pelvic / uterine varices)
- Drainages for post-operative collections
- Nephrostomy for cases of accidental injury of ureter during CS
Gastroenterology
- Tunnelled feeding lines for TPN
- Venous recanalization to restore veins for insertion of feeding lines
- Radiologically Inserted Gastrostomy (RIG)
- Embolization for GIT bleeding
- Percutaneous cholecystostomy
- Percutaneous internal / external biliary drainages
- Percutaneous biliary stents
- Liver chemoembolization
- Percutaneous RFA / Microwave ablation for HCC
- Percutaneous internal / external biliary drainage
- Percutaneous biliary stents
- Liver chemoembolization
- Percutaneous RFA / Microwave ablation for HCC
- Liver biopsy (Trans-abdominal / Trans-jugular)
- Percutaneous coeliac axis block
- TIPS
- BRTO technique (Balloon-occluded Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration) for portosystemic shunts
General Medicine
- CT & US guided biopsies
- Percutaneous coeliac axis block
- IVC filter insertion & retrieval
- Tunnelled central lines needed for prolonged IV access (e.g dialysis)
Hepatobiliary
- Percutaneous cholecystostomy
- Percutaneous internal / external biliary drainages
- Percutaneous biliary stents
- Liver chemoembolization
- Percutaneous RFA / Microwave ablation for HCC
- Liver biopsy (Trans-abdominal / Trans-jugular)
- Coeliac axis block
- TIPS
- BRTO technique (Balloon-occluded Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration) for portosystemic shunts
Oral & Maxillofacial surgery
- Embolization for operative / postoperative bleeding
- Embolization of epistaxis resistant to conservative measures
- RIG (Radiologically Inserted Gastrostomy)
- Pre-operative embolization of vascular H&N lesions
Pain Management
- Percutaneous coeliac axis block for upper abdominal pain resistant to medical treatment
- Embolisation of painful 1ry and metastatic lesions
Respiratory
- CT guided lung biopsies
- US guided pleural biopsies
- Percutaneous drainage of pleural effusions / empyema
Oncology
- CT & US guided biopsies
- Venous access lines & ports for chemotherapy
- Chemoembolization for HCC
- Percutaneous coeliac axis block
- Embolisation of painful 1ry and metastatic lesions
- IVC filter insertion & retrieval
- RIG (Radiologically Inserted Gastrostomy)
Orthopaedics
- CT guided bone biopsies
- Percutaneous vertebroplasty
- Percutaneous sacroplasty
- Embolisation for operative / postoperative bleeding
- Tunnelled central lines needed for prolonged need of IV access (e.g. osteomyelitis)
Publications
- The Role of MRI in assessment of shoulder joint disorders. Master Degree thesis work submitted in University of Alexandria. Egypt. April 1997
- MR pancreatography. Y Naji, J Healey. Review article. Rad magazine, 28, 321, 31-33 Feb. 2002
- RSNA poster: Pulmonary disease in HIV Infection: Combining Pattern Recognition with CD4 Count. Nov. 2003
- Interventional management of central venous thromboses associated with central venous catheters: our attempts are not in vein. A. U. Murugananthan, P. Paskaran, M. M. Y. Khoo, Y. Naji, T. Tran, J. M. D. Nightingale, S. M. Gabe. Proceedings of The Nutrition Society. 12/2009; 69. Dec 2009
- First Report of a Secondary Aortojejunal Fistula Visualized by Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy. Despott EJ, Murino A, Butcher J, Hussain T, Greenstein D, Naji Y, O’Rourke A, Fraser C. Dig Dis Sci. 2012 Jan;57(1):256-7. Aug 2011
- Therapeutic embolisation in the management of obstetric haemorrhage. S. Ghosh, R. Thangeswaran, Y. Naji. International Journal Gynaecology and Obsteteric. 2012. 119. Supplement 3. S836. 2012
- Segmental arterial mediolysis: A systematic review of 85 cases. Shenouda M, Riga C, Naji Y, Renton S. Ann Vasc Surg. 2013 Aug 26. August 2013
- Management of iatrogenic urinothorax following ultrasound guided percutaneous nephrostomy. Batura, D.; Haylock-Vize, P.; Naji, Y.; Tennant, R.; Fawcett, K. Journal of Radiology Case Reports, North America, 828 01 2014. Jan 2014
- Successful endovascular treatment of a large abdominal aortic aneurysm causing duodenal obstruction. James Newman; a Joanne L Calley; a Chung S Lim; a Yaser Naji; b Saroj Das a. Annals of Vascular Surgery. 2015
- Modified Sandwich-graft Technique Employing Aorfix and Viabahn Stent-grafts to Preserve Hypogastric Flow in Cases of Complex Aortoiliac and Isolated Common Iliac Artery Aneurysms Including the Internal Iliac Artery Ostium. C.S. Lim, Y. Naji, S.T. Hussain, E. Pleban, A. Wiszniewski, S. Onida, N.J. Mosquera Arochena, P. Szopinski. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg.2016 Mar;51(3):364-70. Nov 2015
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