Intrathecal Tolerance of Metrizamide in Chloralose Anesthetized Cats

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Abstract
The water soluble radiopaque medium, metrizamide (Amipaque) was introduced into the lumbar subarachnoid space in chloralose anesthetized cats at a standard volume of 0.35 cc/kg in concentrations of 300 mgI/cc to 500 mgI/cc during EMG recording. These animals did not differ from controls which received cerebrospinal fluid under otherwise identical conditions; both groups usually showed some mild and occasional muscle fasciculations or mild spasms. Treatment with metrizamide appeared to be a less deleterious procedure than that using hyperosmotic sucrose (1.32 M) as judged from EMG records. In contrast, equivalent amounts of neglumine iothalamate produced frank convulsions in 7 of 15 cases and a range of hyperirritability in the remaining 8.

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