June 3, 2011 (Hamburg, Germany) — In an observational study of 91 acute stroke patients, the administration of intravenous (IV) dye for computed tomography (CT) perfusion and angiogram studies did not ...

A CT urogram is a test that uses a CT scan and a special dye or contrast medium. It allows doctors to diagnose problems such as kidney and bladder stones, certain cancers, and structural ...

NICE's guideline on acute kidney injury recommends that the risk of AKI should be assessed before offering iodinated contrast agents to adults for emergency or non-emergency imaging, and that ...

The use of iodinated contrast material in computed tomography (CT) did not increase patient risk for acute kidney injury (AKI), dialysis, or death, even among patients with poor renal function or ...

AN INCREASE in serum creatinine as small as 0.3 mg/dL resulting from acute kidney injury after exposure to a contrast agent greatly raises mortality risk, data suggest. Traditionally, contrast ...

Withholding prehydration with sodium bicarbonate from patients with CKD stage 3 undergoing nonemergent contrast-enhanced computed tomography does not compromise renal safety, a study found. In ...

IN the evaluation of patients with impairment of renal function it is often important to delineate the anatomic status of the urinary tract. For this purpose retrograde pyelography is customarily ...

ACUTE renal failure in patients with multiple myeloma who have had intravenous urography has had increased emphasis over the last few years. 1–5 A direct cause- and-effect relation between the acute ...