Received: Revised: Accepted: July 17, 2010 September 30, 2010 October 8, 2010

Determination of normal gastric emptying time and small intestinal transit time are useful in detecting gastrointestinal motility disorders and partial obstructions of the pylorus or small intestine. This study was conducted to evaluate iodixanol as a contrast agent in the gastrointestinal tract in New Zealand White rabbit. Twelve clinically healthy adult rabbits were prepared and kept for two ...

1. Synaptosomes Kiebler et al [1] was the first group to describe the use of a discontinuous iodixanol gradient in the isolation of dendritic spines from mouse hippocampus. The gradient comprised four layers of 9%, 12.5%, 15% and 25% (w/v) iodixanol (equivalent to densities of 1.076, 1.095, 1.105 and 1.152 g/ml); the densest solution contained the material pelleted from the hippocampal homogena...

Bioresorbable Stents In article 2201955, Cheng Sun, Guillermo A. Ameer, and co-workers report a method to confer X-ray contrast 3D printed polymeric bioresorbable stents (BRS) through the incorporation of clinically used agent iodixanol into citrate-based polymer ink. The 3D-printed BRS has strong visibility, mechanical competence, excellent in vitro biocompatibility, characteristics that are i...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) may be a severe complication to the administration of iodine-based contrast media for diagnostic or interventional procedure using radiation exposure. Whether there is a difference in nephrotoxic potential between the various agents is uncertain. We aimed to perform a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized trials on iod...

The authors retrospectively analyzed the pattern and characteristics of non-laboratory-based adverse drug reactions (ADRs) induced by intravenous radiocontrast agents in a large-scale hospital in China during 2014-2015. There were 314 ADR cases among 118,208 patients receiving enhanced CT or MRI examinations. The frequency of moderate/severe ADRs defined by Chinese Society of Radiology (ie, sev...

Because of the escalating number of patients on dialysis and the increased use of vascular access surveillance, more and more hemodialysis patients are undergoing angiographic procedures for angioplasty and thrombectomy of their vascular access. Such procedures expose these patients to radiographic contrast agents (RCAs). Even though, newer low-osmolar and iso-osmolar nonionic RCAs, which are a...

BACKGROUND Coronary artery disease (CAD) alters the vasomotor response to a variety of pharmacological agents. We tested the hypothesis that CAD also has an impact on the coronary vasomotor response to radiologic contrast media. METHODS AND RESULTS We performed quantitative coronary angiography in 42 patients without angiographic evidence of CAD and 38 patients with CAD in the left coronary a...