Re: RC: bone scans

["Karen J. Zelinsky" <kjz2@juno.com>]

Tiffany - THANK YOU SOOOO much for clarifying this mushy-soft-tissue-done
back-in-1983-brain-matter!  You put all the jumbled facts clearly
together and made perfect, professional sense.
Karen


On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:01:39 -0800 "guest@endurance.net"
<guest@endurance.net> writes:
>Tiffany D`Virgilio tiffshorse@mindspring.com
>So.... can you please tell me what I reacted to horrendously years ago 
>in
>NYC when I had iodine or whatever dye injected for one of those brain
>"pictures'?  Reaction: extreme swelling of face.  Thank goodness there
>was no swelling in the throat.  This was a clinic on Park Avenue South
>that specialized in this sort of thing and all they did was a
>wait-and-see and never even tried a contraindication (is that the 
>correct
>word?)  A neurologist friend said that an iodine reaction is fairly
>common - about 1 in 40 - should have been an immediately available IV 
>of
>whatever.  What's you take on this?<<<
>
>Ok-Not in nuclear, but in radiology, which could be CT, MRI or xray, 
>they used to use iodinated contrast media to enhance certain portions 
>of the anatomy. There is alot of iodine in the contrast and poeple DO 
>react to this. That is why about 10 years ago, they started making 
>non-iodianted contrast. Too many people were having mild to severe 
>reactions, ranging from rashes to much worse. Never in Nuclear 
>Medicine, but definitely in radiology. (I am a radiologic technologist 
>as well). Hope this helps clear that one up. Tiff
>
>
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