Post-angiographic blindness in a patient with sickle cell disease.
This article described a 19-year-old woman with homozygous sickle disease in whom multiple cerebral infarcts developed after a technically uncomplicated cardiac angiogram. The article highlighted the risks of hyperosmolar solutions in patients with sickle cell disease and emphasized that only low osmolar contrast media, nonionic or ionic, should be used.
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Department of Radiology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
D000328:Adult; D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D000790:Angiocardiography / Q000009:adverse effects*; D001766:Blindness / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D003974:Diatrizoate Meglumine / Q000009:adverse effects; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D003974:Diatrizoate Meglumine