Inappropriate elimination is the number one reason owners give for relinquishing their cat to an animal shelter. It also accounts for 50 percent of all reported feline behavior problems. The three main causes for feline inappropriate elimination are a medical problem, urine marking, and aversion to the litter box.
Interventional radiology is a medical sub-specialty of radiology utilizing minimally-invasive image-guided procedures to diagnose and treat diseases in nearly every organ system.
Historically, vascular interventional radiologists have been the specialist's specialist, and patients didn't have direct contact with this specialty. Because surgery was the only treatment available for many years, many primary care physicians still refer their patients for surgery.