MSNBC report of woman afflicted with NSF
MSNBC recently reported the case of a woman who is suffering from the after affects of an MRI using a gadolinium contrasting agent. Gadolinium-based dyes are injected into a patient to highlight specific tissue types making them easy to differentiate from other tissues on an MRI. The MRIs can be administered without a contrasting agent, but they are considered to be significantly less useful. To complicate matters, gadolinium is the only contrasting agent approved for use in most MRIs.
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