ArticlePediatric cardiology2014
Local reference levels and organ doses from pediatric cardiac interventional procedures.
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- Diagnostic Reference Levels in Interventional Pediatric Cardiology: Two-Year Experience in a Tertiary Referral Hospital in Latin America.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Radiation Exposure in Pediatric Interventional Procedures.Cardiovascular and interventional radiology · 2021Review
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- Percutaneous closure of ventricular septal defects in children: key parameters affecting patient radiation exposure.American journal of cardiovascular disease · 2021Article
- Age-specific and gender-specific radiation risks in paediatric angiography and interventional cardiology: conversion coefficients and risk reference values.The British journal of radiology · 2020Article
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- Evaluation of the UF/NCI hybrid computational phantoms for use in organ dosimetry of pediatric patients undergoing fluoroscopically guided cardiac procedures.Physics in medicine and biology · 2018Article
- Patient radiation doses and reference levels in pediatric interventional radiology.European radiology · 2017Article
- Impact of Allura Clarity Technology on Radiation Dose Exposure During Left Atrial Appendage Closure.Polish journal of radiology · 2017Article
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- Follow-up of children exposed to ionising radiation from cardiac catheterisation: the Coccinelle study.Radiation protection dosimetry · 2015Article
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Abstract
Interventional cardiology (IC) procedures can be responsible for relatively high radiation doses compared to conventional radiology especially for young patients. The aim of this study was to assess current exposure levels in a French reference centre of pediatric IC. Dosimetric data including dose area product (DAP), fluoroscopy time (FT) and number of cine frame (NF) were analysed taking into account patient weight. Doses to the lungs, esophagus, breast and thyroid were evaluated using anthropomorphic phantoms and thermoluminescent dosimeters. Finally, effective doses (E) were calculated using DAP and conversion factors calculated with PCXMC 2.0 software. 801 IC procedures performed between 2010 and 2011 were analysed. Large variations were observed for DAP, FT and NF values for a given procedure and a given weight group. The assessment of organ doses showed high levels of dose to the lungs and esophagus especially in new-born babies. For diagnostic procedures, E varied from 0.3 to 23 mSv with a mean value of 4.8 mSv and for therapeutic procedures, values ranged from 0.1 to 48.4 mSv with a mean value of 7.3 mSv. The highest values were recorded for angioplasty procedures (mean 13 mSv, range 0.6-48.4 mSv). The increasing use of IC in pediatric population stresses the need of setting up reference levels and keeping doses to children as low as possible.
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