This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on Web of Science (15)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

RONALD A. MALT, MD; HARRY G. OLKEN, MD; WILLIAM J. GOADE, JR., MD

AMA Arch Surg. 1963;87(5):743-746.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Recognition of the utility of large and repeated doses of oral cholecystographic compounds to visualize biliary tract disease unrevealed by the conventional amounts carries with it the hazard of also revealing new toxic effects of the contrast agents. Since 1959 four transient and one fatal case of renal insufficiency after ingestion of double doses of these substances have been recorded.^1-3 The case reported below represents a second fatality, with a description of the pathologic findings.

Report of a Case

A 69-year-old widow entered Lynn Hospital on April 11, 1960, complaining of upper abdominal pain of one week's duration. Similar, but less severe, attacks had occurred intermittently for 50 years. She was otherwise healthy save for Bell's palsy, eight years of hypertension "over 200," and an evanescent left hemiplegia four years before admission.

Her temperature was 98.6 F (37 C) rectally, pulse 100/min, and blood pressure 212/114 mm Hg. Bilateral . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BOSTON; LYNN, MASS

An Established Investigator of the American Heart Association (Dr. Malt).; From the Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and the Departments of Pathology and Radiology, Lynn Hospital and Tufts University Medical School.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication April 3, 1963.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?