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ArticleCureus2022

A Retrospective, Single-Center Study of Technical-Procedural Factors Affecting Radiation Dose During Prostatic Artery Embolization.

Hippocrates Moschouris, Konstantinos Stamatiou, Nektarios Spanomanolis, Anastasios Vasilopoulos, Spiros Tzamarias, Katerina Malagari

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Article in Cureus, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hippocrates MoschourisDepartment of Radiology, Tzaneio General Hospital, Piraeus, GRC.
Konstantinos StamatiouDepartment of Urology, Tzaneio General Hospital, Piraeus, GRC.
Nektarios SpanomanolisDepartment of Radiology, Tzaneio General Hospital, Piraeus, GRC.
Anastasios VasilopoulosDepartment of Radiology, Tzaneio General Hospital, Piraeus, GRC.
Spiros TzamariasDepartment of Urology, Tzaneio General Hospital, Piraeus, GRC.
Katerina MalagariSecond Department of Radiology, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, GRC.
University General Hospital Attikon · GRTzaneion General Hospital · GR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Introduction This study aims to evaluate the effect of technical-procedural factors on radiation dose during prostatic artery embolization (PAE). Methods This was a single-center, retrospective study of 59 patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) who underwent prostatic artery embolization from March 2020 to September 2021. Computed tomography angiography (CTA) was performed for vascular planning prior to PAE in all patients. The effect of the following techniques on the dose area product (DAP) of PAE was evaluated: application of low-dose protocol (LDP) for digital subtraction angiography (DSA), reduction of oblique projections by performing PAE of at least one pelvic side utilizing anteroposterior projections only (AP-PAE), utilization of "roadmap" technique instead of DSA for the delineation of pelvic arterial anatomy (RDMP-PAE), and cone-beam CT (CBCT). The impact of the patient's body mass index (BMI) on DAP was also calculated. The effective dose (ED) of PAE and pre-PAE CTA was calculated from DAP and from dose length products, respectively, using appropriate conversion factors. Results For the entire study population (n = 59), the mean DAP of PAE was 16,424.7 ± 8,019 μGy‧m

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computed tomography angiographycone-beam computed tomographydigital subtraction angiographydose area productprostatic artery embolizationradiation doseroadmap

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