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| MRI Dye Can Cause Death For Kidney Patients |
 A rare skin disease has caught the attention of U.S. health officials who are now warning doctors of the grave health risk.
The risk involves a common base for contract agents used to enhance MRI images. The gadolinium-based agents pose a risk of a particular skin disease to patients with poor kidney function. There are over 200 cases of the debilitating and life threatening disease, nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NFS), reported thus far but many doctors believe the disease is under-recognized. There have been no cases reported of persons with normal kidney function. NFS causes thickening of the skin and possibly of organs and can lead directly to death. |
