Dr. Partha Mandal, DO
Interventional Radiology
Dr. Partha Mandal is a board-certified interventional radiologist who treats conditions through the body's own blood vessels rather than through open surgery. At Texas Regional Urology, his focus is prostate artery embolization — a minimally invasive treatment for men with an enlarged prostate who want to avoid surgery, or who can't safely undergo it.
He earned his biology degree cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin, then completed a master's degree and his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine at the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine in Fort Worth. He trained in integrated interventional radiology at UT Health San Antonio, where he served as chief resident, and is board certified by the American Board of Radiology in Interventional Radiology and Diagnostic Radiology.
Interventional radiology is built on a simple premise: if you can reach a problem through an artery, you can often treat it without an incision. Dr. Mandal works through punctures a few millimetres wide, guided by live imaging, to reach targets deep inside the body. For men with an enlarged prostate, that means relief without anything passing through the urethra and without general anesthesia.
A Texas native, Dr. Mandal lives in the Houston area. Outside of medicine he cooks, builds computers, trains with bodyweight work, follows Formula 1, and takes long walks with his mini schnauzer.
He earned his biology degree cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin, then completed a master's degree and his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine at the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine in Fort Worth. He trained in integrated interventional radiology at UT Health San Antonio, where he served as chief resident, and is board certified by the American Board of Radiology in Interventional Radiology and Diagnostic Radiology.
Interventional radiology is built on a simple premise: if you can reach a problem through an artery, you can often treat it without an incision. Dr. Mandal works through punctures a few millimetres wide, guided by live imaging, to reach targets deep inside the body. For men with an enlarged prostate, that means relief without anything passing through the urethra and without general anesthesia.
A Texas native, Dr. Mandal lives in the Houston area. Outside of medicine he cooks, builds computers, trains with bodyweight work, follows Formula 1, and takes long walks with his mini schnauzer.
What Is Interventional Radiology?
Interventional radiologists are physicians trained to treat conditions from inside the body's blood vessels and organs, using imaging rather than open surgery to see what they're doing.
The access point is usually a small puncture in the wrist or upper thigh. From there, a catheter thinner than a pencil lead is guided through the arteries to the target, with X-ray imaging confirming its position in real time. Treatment is delivered through the catheter.
What that avoids is the point. No incision, no general anesthesia in most cases, and typically same-day discharge. For the right patient and the right problem, it's a genuinely different kind of option — not a smaller version of surgery, but a separate route to the same goal.
In urology, that route opens up treatments that weren't previously available outside a hospital operating room. Prostate artery embolization is the clearest example: by reducing the blood supply feeding an enlarged prostate, it shrinks the gland over the following weeks, easing urinary symptoms without touching the urethra.
The access point is usually a small puncture in the wrist or upper thigh. From there, a catheter thinner than a pencil lead is guided through the arteries to the target, with X-ray imaging confirming its position in real time. Treatment is delivered through the catheter.
What that avoids is the point. No incision, no general anesthesia in most cases, and typically same-day discharge. For the right patient and the right problem, it's a genuinely different kind of option — not a smaller version of surgery, but a separate route to the same goal.
In urology, that route opens up treatments that weren't previously available outside a hospital operating room. Prostate artery embolization is the clearest example: by reducing the blood supply feeding an enlarged prostate, it shrinks the gland over the following weeks, easing urinary symptoms without touching the urethra.
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Related Conditions
Enlarged Prostate / BPH
A common condition in aging men that makes urination weak, frequent, or urgent — and one that can usually be relieved without major surgery.
