Doctors ordered a CT scan with an injection of contrast dye to enhance visibility. Leigh went in for the CT scan March 7, 2024 — that's when she suffered a fatal allergic reaction. Pam Rodgers ...

I still can't get my head around it ... she suffered an anaphylactic reaction to the contrast dye—routinely injected into patients before a CT scan is done. It says, "The cause of initial ...

Baid (NIH, Bethesda, MD), one of the researchers. Reports of hypertensive crisis after contrast-enhanced CT scan in patients with pheochromocytoma had led clinicians to question the safety of this ...

[2] Noncontrast CT in the emergency diagnosis of appendicitis is attractive for several reasons. Administration of oral contrast consumes valuable time in today's fast-paced and overcrowded ED.

We hypothesized that patients with a GCS 15 and a completely normal examination including the lack of a cephalohematoma would not have an intracranial injury and may not require a head CT scan as ...