Dr. P. Cacoub, Department of Nephrology, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, 47-83, boulevard de l’Hôpital, F-75651 Paris Cédex 13 (France) Dear Sir, Acute renal failure has long been recognized as a potential hazard of radiocontrast administration, especially in patients with preexisting renal failure [1]. Recently developed low osmolar agents have been considered less nephrotoxic, but some studies ind...

Taitz, L. S., and Byers, H. D. (1972). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 47, 257. High calorie/osmolar feeding and hypertonic dehydration. Analysis of the sodium content of milk taken from bottles brought by mothers to feed their babies while waiting in the postnatal clinic indicates that the tendency to use excessive amounts of milk powder in feeds is widespread. The effects of high solute/cal...

SELKURT, EWALD E., ISAAC WOMACK, AND WILLIAM N. DAILEY. Mechanism of natriuresis and diwesis during elevated renal arterial pressure. Am. J. Physiol. 2og( I) : 95-99. Ig65.-Continuous perfusion of the dog’s renal artery at pressures averaging 200 mm Hg resulted in natriuresis, increased osmolar clearance, and increase in urine volume. The diuresis was typified by a decrease in T&, , and in some...

Background Iodinated contrast media (CM) are among the most commonly used radiocontrast agents in radiographic examinations or in MRI studies. The clinical development of non-ionic low-osmolar or iso-osmolar iodinated CM has improved both image quality and safety of radioimaging studies. Nevertheless, CM-induced adverse reactions continue to be a public health problem; they are unpredictable an...

AIM To determine the effects of high osmolarity contrast media (HOCM) and iso-osmolar contrast media (CM) application, with or without pressure, on hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) system. METHODS Sixty rats were divided into six equal groups as follows: Group 1: (0.9% NaCl, control), Group 2: (diatrizoate meglumine Na, ionic HOCM, Urographin), Group 3: (iodixanol, iso-osmolar non-ionic CM, Vis...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES This study was designed to compare differences in the incidence of contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) and changes in serum creatinine (SCr) level following iso-osmolar iodixanol or low-osmolar ioversol administration in diabetic patients undergoing coronary angiography, with or without percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). A number of studies have indicated that ...