Mariem Mohamed1*, Mouna Korbi1, Majed Hassine2, Saber Zerriaa1, Hayet Akkari1, Leila Njim3, Hichem Belhadjali1, Jameleddine Zili1 1Dermatology Department, Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia 2Cardiology Department, Bourguiba University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia 3Pathology Department, Bourguiba University H...

BACKGROUND The best pharmaceutical prevention of contrast-medium-induced nephropathy for emergency procedures remains unknown. The aim of this study was to examine the impact of short-duration antioxidant pretreatment on contrast-medium-induced cytotoxicity. METHODS Human embryonic kidney cells were treated with three different contrast media: ionic ioxitalamate, non-ionic low-osmolar iopromi...

BACKGROUND Tubular toxicity and renal ischaemia have been implicated in the pathogenesis of radiocontrast media induced nephropathy (CIN), but their respective role remains unclear. Aims. In order to evaluate changes in renal blood flow in response to intra-arterial contrast media administration, we aimed to continuously measure renal arterial perfusion by means of renal blood flow velocity (RB...

Contrast media (CM) in cardiology is used in vessel visualisation, stenosis identification, localisation and identification of vessel ramifications and cardiovascular malformations. The identification of a CM that has the optimum visual properties and a safe profile was investigated in this study, along with other significant parameters. Quantitative assessment in choosing appropriate CM was in...

Studying transport processes in the brain’s extracellular space is a complicated problem when considering tissue. Tests of corresponding physical and mathematical problems, as well need for materials with cheap but realistic properties to allow testing drug delivery systems, lead development artificial phantom media, one kind which explored this work. We report results from quantifying spread s...