BACKGROUND in recent years many factors have been shown to influence dose received by the patient during ERCP. Therefore it is necessary to update radio induced cancer risk. OBJECTIVES to calculate lifetime attributable risk of cancer during ERCP. To compare the risk with the most common X-ray examinations. DESIGN descriptive study with 393 consecutive ERCP performed at one center. Equipmen...

T he idiom " double-edged sword " describes the use of ionizing radiation in the field of medicine. Medical radiation from x-rays and nuclear medicine is the largest man-made source of radiation in Western countries and although it has benefited patients there is an associated liability or health risk that is unavoidable. A 2009 report by the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measure...

Patient doses for barium meal examination performed at three general hospitals in Serbia and Montenegro were measured using a kerma-area product (KAP) meter. The results were analysed in order to obtain dose-related parameters. Although the observed doses were within the range reported in other studies, intra-hospital and inter-hospital dose variations were significant. Mean KAP values for tota...

PURPOSE Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) creation is used to treat portal hypertension complications. Often the most challenging and time-consuming step in the procedure is the portal vein (PV) puncture. TIPS procedures are associated with prolonged fluoroscopy time and high patient radiation exposures. We measured the impact of transabdominal ultrasound guidance for PV punc...

BACKGROUND Advantages and disadvantages of ad hoc percutaneous coronary intervention have been described. However little is known about the radiation exposure of that procedure as compared with the staged intervention. OBJECTIVE To compare the radiation dose of the ad hoc percutaneous coronary intervention with that of the staged procedureMethods:The dose-area product and total Kerma were mea...

AIMS To evaluate and compare operator radiation exposure during the catheter placement in the coronary sinus via the femoral vein with a steerable catheter or the jugular vein with a fixed curve catheter. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 156 patients undergoing electrophysiological study or radiofrequency catheter ablation were prospectively assigned in a random fashion to either the femoral ve...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to evaluate the radiation dose in patients undergoing liver angiographic procedure and verify the usefulness of different dose measurements to prevent deterministic effects. Gafchromic film, MicroMOSFET data and DIAMENTOR device of the X-ray system were used to characterize the examined interventional radiology (IR) procedure. MATERIALS AND METHODS A liver...