If you have an iodine allergy or have had a reaction to IV contrast dye in the past, you can still have a CT scan with IV contrast. This is because modern IV contrast dye is less likely to cause a ...

Those with chronic medical conditions requiring repeated imaging should minimise radiation exposure and go for other scans. If you are allergic to iodine contrast dye, used in CT scans, let your ...

Frankie Maldonado, the Director of Operations for Life Guard Imaging joins Gayle Guyardo, the host of Bloom, to share more about their innovative CT scan and ...

A new technique to mark peripheral pulmonary lesions (PPLs) before surgical resection was studied by Ganesh Krishna, M.D., a ...

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You may have a CT scan of your chest, tummy (abdomen) and pelvis. This is to find out whether the cancer has spread to other parts of the body. You may have an injection of contrast medium before the ...

Medically reviewed by Robert Burakoff, MD Paradoxical diarrhea, or overflow diarrhea, is when you have constipation and ...

But Bilsborough had concerns, prompting him to send Lively for a CT scan. It revealed a stress fracture in his right ankle that sidelined the center for the next 2½ months. "Somebody should be ...

That figure has raised concerns. Especially when you consider that the number of CT scans done in the US has jumped by 30% in just over a decade. In 2023, there were an estimated 93 million CT ...

Ozempic (semaglutide) and metformin are prescription drugs that are both used to help manage blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes. Ozempic is a brand-name drug, while metformin is a ...

"I even saw an ENT about it, had two MRIs (one with contrast dye), and just recently went to the dentist, who referred me to maxillofacial. Funny enough, I found this fix right before the referral ...