Contrast Medium-Induced Vasoconstrictions

Preventing Nephropathy Induced by Contrast Medium

Copyright © 2006 Massachusetts Medical Society. A 71-year-old man with type 2 diabetes and hypertension is referred for coronary angiography. His medications include metformin and a thiazide. Before the angiogram, his serum creatinine level is 1.8 mg per deciliter (160 μmol per liter), yielding an estimated glomerular filtration rate of 40 ml per minute per 1.73 m2 of body-surface area. What ca...

Preventing nephropathy induced by contrast medium.

Copyright © 2006 Massachusetts Medical Society. A 71-year-old man with type 2 diabetes and hypertension is referred for coronary angiography. His medications include metformin and a thiazide. Before the angiogram, his serum creatinine level is 1.8 mg per deciliter (160 μmol per liter), yielding an estimated glomerular filtration rate of 40 ml per minute per 1.73 m2 of body-surface area. What ca...

Contrast Medium-Induced Acute Kidney Injury.

Contrast medium-induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI) is a predominant cause of hospital-acquired renal insufficiency. With an increasing number of contrast medium-enhanced radiological procedures being performed in a rapidly increasing ageing population in the Western world, it is imperative that more attention is given to understand the aetiology of CI-AKI to devise novel diagnostic methods an...

Acute renal failure induced by contrast medium: steps towards prevention.

Contrast medium-induced nephropathy, a more practical approach to prevention?

To The Editor: we read with interest the good review article by Drs Sterner and Nyman [1] concerning the safe use of intravascular contrast medium for both coronary interventions and multichannel detector computed tomography. As a radiology department in the United Kingdom, our current policy is to follow specific guidelines issued by the Royal College of Radiologists [2] When compared, the two...