Kidney failure patients warned of health risk in MRIs News
A case report published July 12 in the New England Journal of Medicine tells the story of a 70-year-old man with kidney failure who developed the classic symptoms of having been exposed to gadolinium during one or more MRIs. Over the course of four years following a kidney transplant operation, he became seriously disabled by Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis (also known as nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy or NFD). The NEJM report states that the patient had developed skin thickening on one arm, on his legs and on his lower abdomen. He had limited mobility in one elbow and significant skin hardening around the elbow. The overall skin thickening had progressed to the point that he had become increasingly immobile. Where four years earlier he had undergone a successful kidney transplant, he was now back on routine dialysis, and wheel-chair bound.
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