Université de Fribourg

Radiation exposure of the operator during coronary interventions (from the RADIO Study)

Kallinikou, Zacharenia ; Puricel, Serban G. ; Ryckx, Nick ; Togni, Mario ; Baeriswyl, Gerard ; Stauffer, Jean-Christophe ; Cook, Stéphane ; Verdun, Francis R. ; Goy, Jean-Jacques

In: The American Journal of Cardiology, 2016, vol. 118, no. 2, p. 188–194

We sought to compare operator radiation exposure during procedures using right femoral access (RFA), right radial access (RRA), and left radial access (LRA) during coronary angiography (CA) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Because of an increased incidence of long-term malignancy in interventional cardiologists, operator radiation exposure is of rising concern. This prospective...