Erin Dwyer has been doing a lot of waiting. After a sonogram in December, she found out that she has a growth on her right kidney and had to wait months to see a specialist. Now she’s waiting for a CT ...
Jeff Silva walked into his CT scan appointment at Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton looking for answers. A biopsy and MRI had recently diagnosed his prostate cancer, and his doctors had ordered a CT ...
Newswise — Radiographic procedures such as computed tomography (CT) scans that use intravenous dye rarely cause clinically significant acute kidney injury in patients with mild baseline kidney disease ...
Preparation guidelines for a CT scan depend on the type of scan you’re having. If you’re having a bowel scan or a scan with contrast dye, you may need to adjust your diet. Preparation for a CT scan ...
GILBERT, Ariz. - Hospitals all over the country are rationing CT scans and delaying procedures due to a shortage of contrast dye. This began after a plant in Shanghai was put into COVID-19 lockdown, ...
A shortage of a key component for some crucial imaging tests such as CT scans is leading to rationing within hospitals, patient backlogs and doctors across the United States making do with ...