Patient Radiation Doses in Interventional Cardiology Procedure

Interventional cardiology is a minimally-invasive imaging procedure that allows medical doctor to evaluate and treat structural heart diseases. Due its main advantages of avoidance the scars pain, as well long post-operative recovery, interventional procedures have rapidly been growing. However, increasingly complex time-consuming in may increase radiation exposure received by patients. This paper describes study measure patient doses terms air kerma air-product (KAP) for various types conducted Indonesia. The measurements were performed at or cardiac catheterization facilities sixteen hospitals ten cities Indonesia during years 2015 2019. A total 147 on adult patients used this study. type procedure, KAP, recorded after each was completed. demographic data also recorded. results showed mean KAP measured CA (coronary angiography) 680.73 ± 57.85 mGy 12.52 5.86 Gy cm 2 , respectively, while values PCI (percutaneous coronary intervention) 890.66 38.76 20.18 9.37 respectively. These are within ranges reported other previous studies. somewhat affected body mass index patients, fatal cancer risks among comparable with those radiology