Interventional radiology (IR) started in the mid-60s with Charles Dotter who treated a patient with gangrenous toes and critical ischemia using serial dilators and got good results, recanalizing the superficial femoral artery (SFA) lesion, promoting tissue healing, and salvaging the foot. Despite the success, he received a request, a couple of weeks later, from the same surgeon asking for a preoperative diagnostic angiogram, specifically saying "to visualize but not try to fix it," because he did not believe a radiologist could do this. Charles Dotter used to be called, among his contemporary colleagues, Crazy Charlie! He was not crazy. He was a man with a vision and determination. It is perfectly said that he is the Father of Interventional Radiology. Since that time, IR picked up at every level and in every direction.
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