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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on September 4, 2008
European Heart Journal 2008 29(20):2577-2578; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn394
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Operator vs. patient radiation exposure in transradial and transfemoral coronary interventions

Olivier F. Bertrand

Interventional Cardiologist
Faculty of Medicine
Laval Hospital, Quebec Heart-Lung Institute
Laval University
Quebec, QC
CanadaG1V 4G5
Tel: +1 418 656 8711
Fax: +1 418 656 4544
Email: olivier.bertrand@crhl.ulaval.ca

Jean Arsenault

Medical Physicist
Laval Hospital
Quebec Heart-Lung Institute
Quebec, QC
CanadaG1V 4G5

Rosaire Mongrain

Department of Mechanical Engineering
McGill University
Montreal
Canada

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We were interested by the recent report from Brasselet et al.1 measuring radiation exposure to patients and operators after transradial and transfemoral coronary diagnostic and interventions. In brief, they showed that using standard leaded glass and flaps, transradial procedures were associated with higher patient and operator radiation exposures. In the light of these findings, they concluded that ‘radial route indication should be . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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