Contrast Media

Contrast media, also called contrast agents, are used to enhance the blood and perfusion in tissues.This includes iodine based contrast for on computed tomography (CT), gadolinium based agents for MRI and lipid bubble contrast agents used in ultrasound.

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August 7, 2019 — Heart failure is the fourth most common cause for all admission to U.S. hospitals, and it is the most ...

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July 15, 2019 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Gadavist injection for use in cardiac magnetic ...

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Sharon Mulvagh, M.D., FASE, FACC, FRCPC, professor of medicine, division of cardiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax ...

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Thomas Porter, M.D., FASE, the Theordore F. Hubbard Distinguished Chair of Cardiology and a professor of medicine at the ...

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Iodine-based CT contrast with ready for scanning with a Canon Aquilion One 320-slice CT system at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in the Chicago suburbs. It is not clear that contrast caused contract induced nephrapathy (CIN), also referred to as acute kidney injury (AKI) or contrast-associated acute kidney injury (CAAKI). Photo by Dave Fornell
Feature | Contrast Media | Dave Fornell, Editor

Iodine-based contrast agents used in computed tomography (CT) and catheter-based angiography have been implicated as a ...

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May 9, 2019 — Osprey Medical announced the launch of DyeMINISH, a global patient registry to evaluate the ongoing safety ...

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March 7, 2019 — National and international ultrasound societies are urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ...

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November 30, 2018 — VigiLanz and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center recently announced a collaboration that ...

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September 21, 2018 — Osprey Medical announced a collaboration with GE Healthcare on Osprey’s Be Kind to Kidneys campaign ...

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In February 2018, a workshop was held at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, to explore ...

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Thomas Porter, M.D., professor of medicine and director of the echocardiography lab at the University of Nebraska ...

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Roxana Mehran, M.D., FACC, FACP, FCCP, FESC, FAHA, FSCAI, professor of medicine and director of interventional ...

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A discussion with Hitinder Gurm, M.D., MBBS, FACC, professor, internal medicine, and associate chief clinical officer ...

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A cardiac MRI scanner at the Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center. There is growing concern that gadolinium contrast may cause chronic health problems in some patients.
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One of the biggest concerns in radiology in recent years is the safety of gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs) used ...

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