Sugárterhelés az invazív kardiológiában

Abstract

The fi eld of invasive cardiology has shown a signifi cant development in the past 20 years. Invasive cardiologic procedures are becoming more and more common in everyday cardiologic care year by year. Classically these procedures are carried out with the use of X-ray, entailing radiation burden to both patients and health care providers. Reviewing international scientifi c literature data, our aim was to examine the biological basics of radiation burden, its possible consequences and the level of radiation burden in each invasive cardiologic procedures. Moreover, it was our special interest to discuss the increased health risk of the staff carrying out these procedures and the Hungarian legal regulation regarding the allowances of health care providers working in this fi eld.