Education
Medical school
Dr. Rodriguez-Mercado attended University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine and graduated in
1988 (34 years ago).
About Me
Dr. Rodriguez-Mercado works at Recinto De Ciencias Medicas, which has 207 other health providers.
- Neurosurgery
- Interventional Radiology
- 34+ years
- Male
- 1982633210
Hospital Affiliations
Dr. Rodriguez-Mercado is affiliated with the following hospitals.
Admin De Servicios Medicos Puerto Ric
As a neurosurgery and interventional radiology, Dr. Rodriguez-Mercado may see patients with the following conditions. Please check with Dr. Rodriguez-Mercado what conditions he treats. Dr. Rodriguez-Mercado may treat additional conditions not listed.
- Acoustic neuroma
- Aneurysms
- Arteriovenous malformation
- Astrocytoma
- Balance problems
- Benign peripheral nerve tumor
- Brachial plexus injury
- Brain AVM
- Brain aneurysm
- Brain cancer
Specialties
Dr. Rodriguez-Mercado is a neurosurgery and interventional radiology. His primary specialty is neurosurgery.
Neurosurgery
Neurosurgery or neurological surgery, known in common parlance as brain surgery, is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, surgical treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord, central and peripheral nervous system, and cerebrovascular system.
Interventional Radiology
Interventional radiology (IR) is a medical subspecialty that performs various minimally-invasive procedures using medical imaging guidance, such as x-ray fluoroscopy, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, or ultrasound. IR performs both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures through very small incisions or body orifices. Diagnostic IR procedures are those intended to help make a diagnosis or guide further medical treatment, and include image-guided biopsy of a tumor or injection of an imaging contrast agent into a hollow structure, such as a blood vessel or a duct. By contrast, therapeutic IR procedures provide direct treatment—they include catheter-based medicine delivery, medical device placement (e.g., stents), and angioplasty of narrowed structures.