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Multispecialty Group Advises Caution With Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents in Interventional Pain Procedures

In a new practice advisory, an international team of experts discussed the use of gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs), an alternative to iodinated contrast media, in interventional pain ...
Medscape

Contrast Shortage: Déjà vu All Over Again

The recent lockdown in Shanghai, China, has had a serious impact on GE Healthcare's primary pharmaceutical manufacturing facility for iohexol (Omipaque, GE Healthcare) iodinated contrast media (ICM), ...
Business Wire

Fresenius Kabi Introduces Generic Iodixanol Contrast Media Agent

Iodixanol Injection, USP is bioequivalent and therapeutically equivalent to Visipaque ®, rendering it fully substitutable to the brand, and is the first generic iodinated contrast media agent ...
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Toxicity and efficacy profiles of intrathecal injection of I-131 NaI via intraventricular (IVent) or intralumbar (Ilumb) route for leptomeningeal metastases (LM) therapy

Differences in the distribution of methotrexate into high grade gliomas following intravenous administration, as monitored by microdialysis, are associated with blood brain barrier integrity No ...
Nature

Subdural catheter migration may lead to baclofen pump dysfunction

Objectives: To report an unusual cause of intrathecal drug delivery failure in baclofen pump device. Study design:A case report of an SCI patient treated with intrathecal baclofen, presenting a drug ...