COMPLICATIONS OF CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY WITH UROGRAFIN®
✍ Scribed by Tapio Törmä; Rainer Fogelholm
- Book ID
- 114779780
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1967
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 637 KB
- Volume
- 43
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0001-6314
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All types of complications, both minor and major, are tabulated and analyzed in 5531 consecutive cerebral angiographies performed on 3730 patients during a period of 5 years.
Cerebral angiography was performed in 100 patients in order to study the frequency of adverse effects and complications with a new non-ionic contrast medium, iohexol, compared with an ionic medium, meglumine metrizoate. The study was performed as a double blind clinical trial. Iohexol was better tol
The complications of cerebral angiography have been recorded in 1509 examinations with metrizoate (Isopaque Cerebral) and in 1000 examinations with iohexol (Omnipaque). The frequency of complications was 2.0 percent for metrizoate and 1.3 percent for iohexol. Permanent sequelae were seen in 4 patien