Interventional cardiology in Spain has gained great prestige and the country is a reference for many Latin American and European colleagues. Nevertheless, the development of the clinical and technological aspects of the discipline does not seem to have been accompanied by a similar development in radiological safety measures for professionals and patients. In 1994, the Food and Drug Administrat...

Patient dosimetry is performed in radiology and interventional radiology to assess whether deterministic injuries may occur and to establish the risk of stochastic effects. A fundamental problem for patient dosimetry is that no single quantity can be used to accurately assess both the risk of stochastic effects and whether deterministic injuries will occur following a specific examination or pr...

AMA Kałużna-Oleksy M, Paradies V. Women in interventional cardiology – patients’ and operators’ perspectives. Advances Interventional Cardiology/Postępy w Kardiologii Interwencyjnej. 2023;19(2):79-81. doi:10.5114/aic.2023.129204. APA Kałużna-Oleksy, M., & Paradies, (2023). Interwencyjnej, 19(2), 79-81. https://doi.org/10.5114/aic.2023.129204 Chicago Marta, Valeria Paradies. 2023. "Women perspec...

It is well known that occupational doses of radiation in interventional procedures guided by fluoroscopy are the highest doses registered among medical staff using x rays. 2 Interventional cardiologists represent the most important group of medical specialists involved in such practices. Scatter radiation levels in the vicinity of the patient may be quite high under normal working conditions. I...

From the Department of Interventional Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (P.W.S., A.T.L.O.); and the University of Toronto, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto (M.J.B.K.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Serruys at the Department of Interventional Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus Medical Center, Dr. Molewaterplein 40, 3015 GD Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

conclusions with the increase in interventional procedures in cardiology, iatrogenic pathology of the aorta is seen more frequently, and every cardiologist should know how to diagnose and treat this group of diseases. evidence acquisition our search strategy involved an investigation in the pubmed database for every available article in peer reviewed journals between 1975 and 2015, for subjects...

Klinik für Innere Medizin III, Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes, Homburg, Saar, Germany; Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Center, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland; Deptartment of Cardiology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden; Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Clinical and Interventional Angiology, University and University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Center...