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Nephropathy induced by contrast medium in an hispanic population after coronary angiography.
Bol Asoc Med P R
September 2013
Department of Internal Medicine of the Ponce School of Medicine and Damas Hospital, Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Unlabelled: Contrast medium-induced nephropathy (CIN) is regarded as one of the most important complications after intravascular administration of radiographic contrast media and the third most common cause of hospital-acquired acute kidney injury. Contrast-induced nephropathy may develop in up to10% of patient with normal renal function but may be as high 25% in patient with risk factors.
Methods: A total of 192 medical records were obtained, in which 55 patient were eligible by our inclusion and exclusion criteria.