Death Following Angiocardiography
- 17 December 1953
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 249 (25) , 1029-1031
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195312172492506
Abstract
AMONG 6824 cases collected by Dotter and Jackson§ from 182 hospitals, in which angiocardiography had been used as a diagnostic procedure, deaths occurred in 26 cases, or 0.38 per cent. In 25 Diodrast, Diodone or Pyelosil was used. We have been unable to find a report of death after injection of Neo-Iopax for angiocardiography. One death during an arteriogram, not an angiocardiogram, with Neo-Iopax as the contrast substance, has been reported.§In the following cases death was due to angiocardiography, Diodrast being given in 1 and Neo-Iopax in the other (Table 1).Case 1. J. O., a 43-year-old woman, was . . .Keywords
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