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Volume 3, Issue 7, Page 1 (July 2007)


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Contrast Agents Tied to Fibrosis in Renal Disease

AMY ROTHMAN SCHONFELD (Contributing Writer)

CHICAGO — Radiologic associations and regulatory agencies in the United States and Europe are grappling with nephrogenic systemic fibrosis, a severe scleroderma-like syndrome that may arise in patients with poor kidney function after receiving gadolinium-based contrast agents administered during magnetic resonance imaging.

PII: S1553-3212(07)70210-8

doi:10.1016/S1553-3212(07)70210-8


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