The Radiological Exposure from the Perspective of the Interventional Cardiologist

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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