Acute Fatality Following Pulmonary Angiography in a Patient on an Amiodarone Regimen—A Case Report
- 1 February 1993
- journal article
- case report
- Published by SAGE Publications in Angiology
- Vol. 44 (2) , 152-155
- https://doi.org/10.1177/000331979304400211
Abstract
A patient being treated with amiodarone experienced acute respiratory failure and death immediately following pulmonary angiography. Physicians must be aware of the potential catastrophic complication of both ionic and nonionic contrast angiography in this setting.Keywords
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