Contrast-Related Neurotoxicity: An Entity Not to be Forgotten

Rengarajan Rajagopal; Sreenivasa Narayana Raju; Niraj Nirmal Pandey; Sanjiv Sharma

doi:10.1055/s-0039-1693539

Journal of Clinical Interventional Radiology ISVIR, Inhaltsverzeichnis

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Journal of Clinical Interventional Radiology ISVIR 2019; 03(02): 139-141
DOI: 10.1055/s-0039-1693539

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Indian Society of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Contrast-Related Neurotoxicity: An Entity Not to be Forgotten

Rengarajan Rajagopal

¹Department of Cardiovascular Radiology and Endovascular Interventions, Cardiothoracic Neurosciences Center, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India

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Sreenivasa Narayana Raju

¹Department of Cardiovascular Radiology and Endovascular Interventions, Cardiothoracic Neurosciences Center, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India

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Niraj Nirmal Pandey

¹Department of Cardiovascular Radiology and Endovascular Interventions, Cardiothoracic Neurosciences Center, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India

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Sanjiv Sharma

¹Department of Cardiovascular Radiology and Endovascular Interventions, Cardiothoracic Neurosciences Center, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India

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Abstract

Neurotoxicity related to intra-arterial use of iodinated contrast agents is a relatively uncommon complication of angiography. The authors describe the case of a 42-year-old patient with type B aortic dissection, who developed contrast-related neurological symptoms.

Keywords

iodinated contrast - neurotoxicity - angiography

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