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Home Preprocedural Planning for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
Variants
Scenario Scenario ID Procedure Adult RRL Peds RRL Appropriateness Category
TAVR, preintervention planning, supravalvular aorta and vascular access assessment, initial imaging 3196586
CTA chest with IV contrast
1-10 mSv
☢☢☢ 		3-10 mSv [ped]
☢☢☢☢ 		Usually appropriate
CTA abdomen and pelvis with IV contrast
10-30 mSv
☢☢☢☢
Usually appropriate
CTA chest abdomen pelvis with IV contrast
30-100 mSv
☢☢☢☢☢
Usually appropriate
US intravascular aorta and iliofemoral system
0 mSv
O 		0 mSv [ped]
O 		May be appropriate
(Disagreement)
MRA abdomen and pelvis without and with IV contrast
0 mSv
O 		0 mSv [ped]
O 		May be appropriate
MRA abdomen and pelvis without IV contrast
0 mSv
O 		0 mSv [ped]
O 		May be appropriate
MRA chest abdomen pelvis with IV contrast
0 mSv
O 		0 mSv [ped]
O 		May be appropriate
MRA chest without and with IV contrast
0 mSv
O 		0 mSv [ped]
O 		May be appropriate
US duplex Doppler chest abdomen pelvis
0 mSv
O 		0 mSv [ped]
O 		Usually not appropriate
US echocardiography transesophageal
0 mSv
O 		0 mSv [ped]
O 		Usually not appropriate
US echocardiography transthoracic resting
0 mSv
O 		0 mSv [ped]
O 		Usually not appropriate
Aortography chest abdomen pelvis
10-30 mSv
☢☢☢☢
Usually not appropriate
CT abdomen and pelvis with IV contrast
1-10 mSv
☢☢☢ 		3-10 mSv [ped]
☢☢☢☢ 		Usually not appropriate
CT abdomen and pelvis without IV contrast
1-10 mSv
☢☢☢ 		3-10 mSv [ped]
☢☢☢☢ 		Usually not appropriate
CT chest with IV contrast
1-10 mSv
☢☢☢ 		3-10 mSv [ped]
☢☢☢☢ 		Usually not appropriate
CT chest without and with IV contrast
1-10 mSv
☢☢☢ 		3-10 mSv [ped]
☢☢☢☢ 		Usually not appropriate
CT chest without IV contrast
1-10 mSv
☢☢☢ 		3-10 mSv [ped]
☢☢☢☢ 		Usually not appropriate
CT abdomen and pelvis without and with IV contrast
10-30 mSv
☢☢☢☢ 		10-30 mSv [ped]
☢☢☢☢☢ 		Usually not appropriate
CT chest abdomen pelvis with IV contrast
10-30 mSv
☢☢☢☢ 		3-10 mSv [ped]
☢☢☢☢ 		Usually not appropriate
CT chest abdomen pelvis without and with IV contrast
10-30 mSv
☢☢☢☢ 		10-30 mSv [ped]
☢☢☢☢☢ 		Usually not appropriate
CT chest abdomen pelvis without IV contrast
10-30 mSv
☢☢☢☢ 		3-10 mSv [ped]
☢☢☢☢ 		Usually not appropriate
CT heart function and morphology with IV contrast
10-30 mSv
☢☢☢☢ 		3-10 mSv [ped]
☢☢☢☢ 		Usually not appropriate