The doctor may tell you to drink more fluids than normal to flush the contrast dye from your body. Most of the time, an intravenous pyelogram is safe with no complications. But there are side ...

According to Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City, the intravenous contrast dye collects in the blood vessels of abnormal tissues, enabling a breast radiologist to study those areas in more detail.

In addition to barium, your doctor may want you to have intravenous (IV) contrast dye to highlight blood vessels, organs, and other structures. This will likely be an iodine-based dye. If you have ...

Contrast is a type of dye that the radiology nurse injects into your arm. They administer the dye through your vein in a process called intravenous (IV) injection. This dye contains iodine that ...

For people with normal kidney function, the dye should leave the body within ... imaging modalities such as an MRI without contrast, CT scan with intravenous contrast, which is a completely ...

Frita Fisher, who is based in Atlanta, Georgia, and works in internal medicine and pediatrics, appeared on "Fox & Friends" on Wednesday morning to discuss the current shortage of contrast dye in ...

It turns out that thousands of people don’t know they need to drink fluids after scans with contrast, but one TikTok user posted a reminder for her patients and the internet. Gabrielle Foreman ...

Leigh Rodgers went into anaphylactic shock from the contrast dye — and her mother thinks the allergy risks of the dye weren’t explained properly Pam Rodgers / SWNS A mom went into anaphylactic ...

The hospital association estimates that about half of all hospitals in the United States rely on GE for contrast dye to perform about 20 million scans a year, or about 385,000 scans each week.

Scientists at the University of Aberdeen have developed an ultra-low magnetic scanner, which can perform MRI scans without the need for intravenous ... the need for contrast dye.

As a worldwide shortage of contrast dye for medical imaging continues, a new UC San Francisco research letter in JAMA quantified strategies medical facilities can employ to safely reduce dye use in ...