Dr. Peder Horner, MD

07/04/2024

Happy 4th, America! From, Montana.

01/24/2024

I'm now practicing in beautiful Butte, Montana. I am accepting new patients for interventional radiology consults and procedures. Thanks for welcoming us to the community.
At St. James, I am treating minimally-invasively:
- Enlarged prostate (prostatic artery embolization/PAE)
- Uterine fibroids (uterine fibroid embolization/UFE)
- Knee pain (geniculate artery embolization)
- Kidney and liver tumors (ablation/embolization)
- Peripheral vascular disease
- Deep venous disease (complex venous reconstruction/May Thurner Syndrome/IVC Filter removals, etc)

Compassionate experienced physician treating fibroids (UFE), liver and kidney cancer, and enlarged prostate (PAE).

01/21/2022

What Is Cone Beam CT, And Why Is It ABSOLUTELY Essential For Prostate Artery Embolization (PAE)?
( ) has emerged as proven non-surgical alternative to TURP to minimally-invasively treat men suffering from enlarged prostate (benign prostatic hypertrophy/BPH). The procedure involves catheterizing the small arteries supplying blood to the prostate gland and blocking them by injecting tiny particles (“beads” or ”spheres”). These beads are very powerful to shrink the prostate gland, but they can also cause serious damage to other organs (re**um, bladder, and p***s for example) if they are injected into the wrong artery.

One proven way to avoid most of these complications is to perform a cone beam CT of the pelvis before injecting the beads. Cone Beam CT is performed on upgraded modern fluoroscopy (x-ray) machines for procedures. If only the prostate glands lights up when doing this, it reassures the interventional radiologist, that when they inject the beads, they will go to the prostate gland only. If another organ “lights up”, then the IR will need to keep searching for the precise artery to block (embolize) or take other maneuvers to protect the patient from non-target embolization.

In fact, one study by PAE pioneer Dr. Bagla showed that cone beam CT in PAE changed management in up to 46% of patients.

Believe it or not, not every interventional radiologist performing PAE will use this technique. Some think it takes too long to do so (only adds a few minutes, in reality), and others simply haven’t invested the money into having the proper equipment to allow cone beam CT and thereby the safest possible procedure for men undergoing PAE. Many outpatient centers do not have this technology.

However, we at Vascular Labs of the Rockies, do. One of the absolute essentials for me when building this state of the art facility is that our x-ray machine would have cone beam CT and 3D reconstruction capabilities. Our outpatient center is the only one in Colorado to have this technology.

When you come to www.denverinterventional.com at VLR, you can rest assured that we have invested heavily in your safety for each and every procedure.

01/12/2022

Website is live! Come see me at www.denverinterventional.com

09/03/2021

High blood pressure in a young female. This diagnosis is fortunately very treatable and can eliminate the need for antihypertensive medication. This is a classic case of fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD)- easily treated with a simple balloon angioplasty. No stent necessary, outpatient procedure.

04/16/2021

This was a really fun interview! Forthcoming podcast with the one and only Barry Uchida. We talk about how a guy with a fisheries degree ends up working alongside luminaries like Drs. Dotter, Rösch, Keller, Kaufman, Cope, and more. What a pivot!!

04/16/2021

Still Life: Interventional Radiology, 2021

When I entered fellowship in 2007, we were just beginning to become a clinically focused specialty. Most of the work was still done almost transactionally without longitudinal relationships with patients.

Fast forward, 2021, I see patients in clinic before and after a procedure and in longitudinal follow up for years. I partner with each one to achieve their health goals and make them better. That might mean treating their fibroid symptoms, enlarged prostate, broken vertebrae, removing blood clots, or curing/controlling their cancer, knee pain, etc.

I can tell you that having a clinic is 💯% more rewarding than I ever anticipated.

03/17/2021

Prostatic Artery Embolization ( ) requires advanced training, experience and precise attention during the procedure to keep it safe and obtain those amazing outcomes for men suffering from BPH.

I provide this advanced procedure in both the outpatient and hospital settings, whichever is right for each patient.