Interventional Radiology Patient Stories

Patient stories about Interventional Radiology

August 25, 2023

Conway Man Grateful For New Approach to Prostate Problem

Tim Taylor

For John Apple, a prostate artery embolization (PAE) relieved symptoms caused by benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), commonly known as an enlarged prostate.

The future was anything but hopeful for John Apple, 70, a retired corporate accountant from Conway.

Diagnosed in 2021 with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), commonly known as an enlarged prostate, Apple was told by his physician that he had only two treatment options: a surgical procedure that could likely have little effect on his condition or wearing a catheter the rest of his life.


January 20, 2023

Three-Year-Old Patient Keeps Sight, Survives Rare Eye Cancer

Benjamin Waldrum

Dallas Carter

All Quatisa East wanted was for her infant daughter, Dallas Carter, to be able to see. A rare diagnosis of retinoblastoma, or cancer of the eye, threatened that possibility. “I didn’t give up on her — everything I’ve done is just being a mother,” said the 29-year-old. It’s been a long road for Dallas and…


October 14, 2019

Stroke Survivor Grateful for Treatment at UAMS’ Comprehensive Stroke Center

Ben Boulden

Ticu Gamalie

Oct. 14, 2019 | Seconds after having a stroke May 18, Ticu Gamalie found himself looking up from the ground at his fellow soccer referees and the players, coaches and parents who had come to his aid. Although he said he was disoriented, he knew one thing clearly: He wanted to go to UAMS. “We…


October 3, 2016

Pelvic Pain Relieved by Interventional Radiologist

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Doctor and patient

Oct. 3, 2016 | Dealing with constant pelvic pain, Andie Marmorato of Cabot heard plenty of theories from doctors, but what she was lacking was answers. That changed when she was referred to Mollie Meek, M.D., an interventional radiologist and associate professor in the College of Medicine at UAMS. Marmorato said the pain — imagine…


August 14, 2015

Family Finds Cutting-Edge HHT Treatment at UAMS

Kelly Gardner

As an ordinary 11-year-old girl, Emalyn Daniel had two questions for her doctor: “Will it hurt?” And, “When can I go swimming?” Emalyn’s medical condition, hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), is anything but ordinary. So her parents, Emma and Forrest Daniell, had many questions to ask UAMS interventional radiologist Mollie Meek, M.D. In her father’s family, one…


August 14, 2014

Women Discover Fibroids Cure at UAMS

Kelly Gardner

Fibroids caused Nathalie Massanelli, 39, of Little Rock, to lose so much blood each month that she became anemic and afraid to go out in public. For Bridget Dooley, 44, of Hot Springs, the pain from fibroids was too much to bear. “It would start hurting a week before my menstrual period and just got…


June 19, 2014

UAMS Uses Little-Known Procedure to Save New Mom

Kelly Gardner

When 22-year-old Christina Gillihan left Searcy in an ambulance bound for UAMS on July 28, she and members of her family were hoping for a miracle. In the days and weeks after her daughter Kyra’s birth July 2 at a local hospital, Christina developed a blood clot in a main artery of her lung, then…


August 14, 2011

New Device Unclogs Stroke Patient’s Veins in Brain

Kelly Gardner

In the days leading up to Glen Deaton’s emergency trip from Trumann to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), large veins that drain blood from his brain were clotting. Confusion, nausea, vomiting and blurred vision were among his symptoms. An MRI revealed cerebral venous sinus thrombosis – a type of stroke caused by a…