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Question about exposure during very early pregnancy—struggling to find informed answers elsewhere on the internet.

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So I’m a third-year med student and accidentally pregnant. By counting backwards I’m certain that during the post-fertilization/pre-implantation window of time I was in the room for several interventional IR and ortho surgeries. Specifically a cardiac cath, a pancreaticobiliary drain replacement, one vertebroplasty, and one total hip. I wore full lead for each procedure, and was usually a good 5 feet from the tube.

My question is, should I be worried about major malformations or significantly increased cancer risk in my unborn kid? I’m familiar with the “all or nothing phenomenon” in early embryogenesis but I guess I’m having trouble even quantifying my potential radiation exposure in these various procedures while wearing lead.

Sorry for the neuroticism. Just feeling that parental guilt hard right now.

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