Physicians

Department / Division
Radiology / Vasc/Intervention Radiology

Address
Duke University Hospital
Room 1502 (MS3808)
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone
919-684-7280

Office Telephone
919-684-7284

Fax Telephone
919-684-7148

Training

• MD, Georgetown University School of Medicine (Washington, DC), 1985

Residency

• Radiology, Georgetown University Medical Center (Washington, DC), 1986-1990

Fellowship

• Vascular/Interventional Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, 1990-1991

Clinical Interests
Comprehensive treatment of liver disease; tumor therapy, including drug-eluting bead embolization, theraspheres, and sirspheres; biliary interventions, including evaluation, drainage and stenting of the biliary system; liver transplant interventions; cirrhosis; evaluation and treatment of portal hypertension, including transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts, transjugular liver biopsy and variceal embolization

Research Interests
My current interests in research include:
1. Improved anesthesia for liver intervention.
2. Thrombectomy device for dialysis fistulae and veins.
3. Improving diagnostic yield for difficult biliary duct biopsies.
4. Improving methods of small bowel and colonic arterial embolization.
5. Percutaneous intervention for pancreatic duct.
6. Prolonging the patency of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts.
7. Prolonging the patency of biliary stents.

Industry Relationships and Collaborations (What's this?)

This physician has no reported relationships with industry.

Representative Publications
Suhocki PV, Trotter JF: Percutaneous hepatic vein reconstruction for Budd-Chiari syndrome. Am J Roentgenal 1998; 171:189-191 (1998)

Workman MJ, Suhocki PV, Meyers WC, Branch MS: Percutaneous Transhepatic Choledochocholedochostomy in the Management of the Postoperative Patient. J Vasc Interv Radiol 1998;9:359-362 (1998)

Suhocki PV, Lawson JH, Harland RC, Smith TP. Effecting a Cure for a Consumptive Coagulopathy with Transcatheter Embolization of a Visceral Artery Aneurysm. Accepted by AJR 10/3/95 for publication. (1996)

Suhocki PV, Lawson JH, Harland RC, Smith TP: Curing a Consumption Coagulopathy with Transcatheter Emolization of a Visceral Artery Aneurysm. AM J Roentgenol 1996;166:982-984 (1996)

Knelson MH, Husdon ER, Suhocki PV, Payne CS, Salle DS, Newman GE. Functional Restoration of Occluded Central Venous Catheters: New Interventional Techniques. Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology 1995; 6:623-627. (1995)

Sharara AI, Le TH, Suhocki PV, Jowell PS. Extrahepatic Biliary Obstruction Resulting from a Pancreatic Pseudoaneurysm. GI Endoscopy 1995; 42: 176-177. (1995)

Branum G, Schmitt C, Baillie J, Suhocki P, Baker M, Davidoff A, Branch S, Chair R, Cucchiaro G, Murray E, Pappas T, Cotton P, Meyers WC. Management of Major Biliary Complications After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy. Annals of Surgery 1993: 217:532-541. (1993)

Ashdown BC, Suhocki PV, Jowell PS, Meyers WC: Non-Operative Management of a Common Bile Duct Injury Sustained During Cholecystectomy in a Morbidly Obese Patient. Accepted for publication in Hepatopancreaticobiliary Surgery.

Suhocki PV, Clavien PA: Percutaneous transhepatic creation of a choledochojejunostomy between an excluded aberrant bile duct and a Roux-en-Y limb. Am J Roentgenol. (In Press)

Suhocki PV, Meyers WC: Injury to aberrant bile ducts during cholecystectomy: a common cause of diagnostic error and treatment delay. Am J Roentgenol. (In Press).