Watching for Radiation Harm After Interventional Procedures
12/12/2019
Interventional procedures can expose interventionalists and nearby staff to high doses of radiation, and this can lead to radiation-associated lens opacities, said Madan Rehani, PhD, director of Global Outreach for Radiation Protection at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, in a Medscape report.
These are different than the typical opacities seen in clinical practice, he explained, as they tend to develop in the posterior area of the lens while the more common lens opacities, such as those related to age, favor the anterior or nuclear area of the lens.