Radiation-induced skin injury after complex endovascular procedures

Minimizing radiation-induced skin injury in interventional radiology procedures.

Skin injury is a deterministic effect of radiation. Once a threshold dose has been exceeded, the severity of the radiation effect at any point on the skin increases with increasing dose. Peak skin dose is defined as the highest dose delivered to any portion of the patient's skin. Reducing peak skin dose can reduce the likelihood and type of skin injury. Unfortunately, peak skin dose is difficul...

Radiation-Induced Alopecia after Endovascular Embolization under Fluoroscopy

Radiation-induced alopecia after fluoroscopically guided procedures is becoming more common due to an increasing use of endovascular procedures. It is characterized by geometric shapes of nonscarring alopecia related to the area of radiation. We report a case of a 46-year-old man presenting with asymptomatic, sharply demarcated rectangular, nonscarring alopecic patch on the occipital scalp foll...

Radiation injuries after fluoroscopic procedures.

Fluoroscopically guided diagnostic and interventional procedures have become much more commonplace over the last decade. Current fluoroscopes are easily capable of producing dose rates in the range of 0.2 Gy (20 rads) per minute. The dose rate often changes dramatically with patient positioning and size. Most machines currently in use have no method to display approximate patient dose other tha...

Skin injuries from fluoroscopically guided procedures: part 1, characteristics of radiation injury.

Radiation-induced kidney injury

*Corresponding author: Milad Baradaran-Ghahfarokhi, Medical Physics and Medical Engineering Department Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] The kidneys are vitally important, responsible for producing erythropoietin to stimulate red blood cell production, filtering waste metabolites and electrolytes from the blood, and modulating blood pressure...