A CT urogram is a test that uses a CT scan and a special dye or contrast medium. It allows doctors to diagnose problems such as kidney and bladder stones, certain cancers, and structural ...

A CT urogram is a test using a CT scan and special dye called a contrast medium to look at the urinary system. The contrast medium helps show up the urinary system more clearly. You have a CT scan of ...

June 3, 2011 (Hamburg, Germany) — In an observational study of 91 acute stroke patients, the administration of intravenous (IV) dye for computed tomography (CT) perfusion and angiogram studies did not ...

The safety of contrast agents has improved over time, but they may still increase the risk of acute kidney injury in some people 4.5 The value of the POC creatinine devices is that they prevent the ...

Background A 64-year-old man with a history of hypertension and type II diabetes mellitus presented to his primary care physician for his annual health examination. Renal ultrasonography revealed a ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...

IN the evaluation of patients with impairment of renal function it is often important to delineate the anatomic status of the urinary tract. For this purpose retrograde pyelography is customarily ...

NICE's guideline on acute kidney injury recommends that the risk of AKI should be assessed before offering iodinated contrast agents to adults for emergency or non-emergency imaging, and that ...