Table 5.
Types of procedures performed by period of time
| Procedure types | Non-COVID era | COVID era | Non-COVID LDP | COVID LDP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hepatic oncological treatments (ablation/TACE/TARE) | 58 | 49 | 23 | 16 |
| Other ablations | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Hepatic/pulmonary biopsy | 59 | 44 | 25 | 15 |
| Other biopsy | 31 | 31 | 18 | 13 |
| Traumatic/post-surgical embolization (bleeding) | 33 | 33 | 16 | 10 |
| Embolization for benign diseases (UFE/varicocele/uterine fibroid embol/bronchial) | 26 | 5 | 13 | 1 |
| Presurgical embolization (PVE/tumoral embolization) | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 |
| Urological therapeutic procedures (nephrostomy/ureteral stenting) | 192 | 145 | 85 | 47 |
| Biliary therapeutic procedures (drainage/stent) | 70 | 64 | 25 | 18 |
| Cholecystostomy | 16 | 10 | 8 | 3 |
| Abdominal drainage | 130 | 104 | 55 | 28 |
| Thoracic drainage | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| Extracranial/peripheral AVM/DAVF embolization | 8 | 6 | 4 | 0 |
| Abdominal/peripheral revascularization | 88 | 53 | 39 | 9 |
| TIPS | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2 |
| Caval procedures (filter/foreign body removal) | 12 | 13 | 5 | 4 |
| Ischemic stroke | 18 | 29 | 9 | 12 |
| Cerebral aneurysm embolization | 24 | 16 | 11 | 0 |
| Spinal/vertebral procedures | 25 | 34 | 8 | 4 |
| Diagnostic cerebral angiography | 15 | 17 | 10 | 3 |
AVM artero-venous malformation, DAVF dural artero-venous fistulas, LDP “lockdown period” (between 11 March and 8 April), PVE portal vein embolization, TACE transcatheter arterial chemoembolization, TARE trans-arterial radioembolization, TIPS transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt, UFE uterine fibroid embolization