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Are intravenous injections of contrast media really less nephrotoxic than intra-arterial injections?
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PMID:  22307815     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
We oppose the opinion that the intra-arterial administration of iodine-based contrast media (CM) appears to pose a greater risk of contrast medium-induced nephropathy (CIN) than intravenous administration since 1) in intra-arterial coronary procedures and most other intra-arterial angiographic examinations, CM injections are also intravenous relative to the kidneys, 2) there is a lack of comparative trials studying the risk of CIN between intra-arterial and intravenous procedures with matched risk factors and CM doses, 3) a bias selection of patients with fewer risk factors may explain the seemingly lower rate of CIN after CT in comparison with coronary interventions, 4) the rate of CIN following intra-arterial coronary procedures may also be exaggerated owing to other causes of acute kidney failure, such as haemodynamic instability and microembolisation, 5) roughly the same gram-iodine/GFR ratio (≈1:1) as a limit of relatively safe CM doses has preliminarily been found for both intravenous CT and intra-arterial coronary procedures and 6) the substantially higher injected intravenous CM dose rate during CT relative to an intra-arterial coronary procedure might actually pose a higher risk of CIN following CT. Key Points • Most intra-arterial injections of contrast media are intravenous relative to the kidneys.• No evidence that intravenous CM injections should be less nephrotoxic than intra-arterial.• Considerably higher dose rates of CM are used for CT relative to intra-arterial procedures.• Higher dose rates may pose higher nephrotoxic risk for intravenous based CT studies.
Authors:
Ulf Nyman; Torsten Almén; Bo Jacobsson; Peter Aspelin
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Publication Detail:
Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2012-2-4
Journal Detail:
Title:  European radiology     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1432-1084     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2012 Feb 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2012-2-6     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9114774     Medline TA:  Eur Radiol     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
Affiliation:
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Lund, Lasarettet Trelleborg, SE-231 85, Trelleborg, Sweden, ulf.nyman@skane.se.
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