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ReviewStructural heart : the journal of the Heart Team2024

Addressing the Occupational Risk of Radiation Exposure in the Evolving Field of Interventional Echocardiography.

Philipp Lauten, Harald Lapp, Björn Goebel

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Review in Structural heart : the journal of the Heart Team, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Philipp LautenHeart Valve Unit, Department of Cardiology, Heart Center, Zentralklinik Bad Berka, Bad Berka, Germany.
Harald LappHeart Valve Unit, Department of Cardiology, Heart Center, Zentralklinik Bad Berka, Bad Berka, Germany.
Björn GoebelHeart Valve Unit, Department of Cardiology, Heart Center, Zentralklinik Bad Berka, Bad Berka, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Interventional echocardiography (IE) is a relatively new subspecialty in the field of cardiology that has rapidly evolved to occupy a critical role in the treatment of structural heart disease. Despite this, clear competency guidelines are only now being issued, and, of pressing importance, the health risks associated with the profession, particularly occupational radiation exposure, still need to be recognized and appropriately addressed for both specialists and trainees in IE as well as for supporting sonographers. This review will briefly discuss the extensive training interventional echocardiographers need in advanced imaging modalities and will then present standard measures as well as possible innovative devices that can be implemented to reduce ionizing radiation exposure for those working in the field of IE.

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Interventional echocardiographyRadiation exposureValve interventions

Identifiers

PMID39290673
PMCPMC11403041

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