AIMS The consequences of high radiation dose for patient and staff demand constant improvements in X-ray dose reduction technology. This study assessed non-inferiority of image quality and quantified patient dose reduction in interventional cardiology for an anatomy-specific optimised cine acquisition chain combined with advanced real-time image noise reduction algorithms referred to as 'study ...

Pediatric and Congenital Interventional Cardiology is the practice of catheter-based techniques that improve cardiac physiology and circulation through the treatment of heart disease in children and adults with congenital or acquired heart defects. Over the last decade, and since last published training guidelines for pediatric cardiac catheterization and interventional cardiology were publishe...

As dynamic flat-panel detectors (FD) are introduced in interventional cardiology (IC), the relation between patient dose and image quality (IQ) needs to be reconsidered for this type of image receptor. On one hand this study investigates IQ of a FD system by means of a threshold contrast-detail analysis and compares it to an image intensifier (II) system on a similar X-ray setup. On the other h...

This article summarizes 20 years of percutaneous interventional cardiology for coronary angioplasty. During this period, interventional cardiology has evolved faster than any other type of treatment in the field of cardiovascular diseases. We describe the early results of interventional cardiology, the increase in primary success rates and the reduction in complication rates for percutaneous te...

Since the second edition of Task Force 3 of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Core Cardiology Training Symposium (COCATS) guidelines was published (1), both the cognitive knowledge and technical skill required of the invasive and interventional cardiologist have continued to grow. Concomitantly, the role of the cardiac catheterization laboratory in trainee education and as a clinical car...