Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 2019; 112(4): 400-401

The Radiological Exposure from the Perspective of the Interventional Cardiologist

Pedro Beraldo de Andrade , André Labrunie

DOI: 10.5935/abc.20190052

This Short Editorial is referred by the Research article "Prevalence of Lens Opacity in Interventional Cardiologists and Professional Working in the Hemodynamics in Brazil".

The interventional cardiology represents an area in constant development and it has advanced considerably in the treatment of both congenital and acquired cardiovascular diseases. It has a safe and effective role in the correction of septal and shunt congenital abnormalities, valve diseases, especially the percutaneous treatment of the aortic stenosis in patients with high or intermediate^, surgical risk and, more recently, it has also moved towards the mitral and tricuspid apparatuses.^,

The percutaneous coronary intervention has stood out in the treatment of lesions of the left main coronary artery and multivessel coronary artery disease, in the absence of high anatomical complexity, reaching now the frontier of chronic occlusions with consistent results.

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