NSF Trials Set to Begin in January 2010
Attorneys for victims of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis caused by gadolinium MRI contrast agent exposure have had their case consolidated in the Federal Court before Judge Dan Polster in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division since February 2008. Judge Polster will preside over four gadolinium lawsuit trials starting in early January 2010. Judge Polster is presiding over all of the Federal Court gadolinium NSF cases brought across the country. Currently, there are about 420 gadolinium NSF cases pending in his Court. The four trials will be conducted on or around January 15, March 1, April 15 and June 1, 2010. NSF victims already suffer from renal failure and the scientific community who have investigated the disease are under the general consensus that because renal failure, patients are unable to expel the toxic contrast agent from their systems in the same manner as those without renal failure. The disease typically presents with the hardening of the skin, contracture of joints reducing mobility to the point of being confined to a wheelchair and can lead to eventual death.
