Send us your SOS on an MRI/MRA Gadolinium injury

Posted by Bruce Westbrook

March 31, 2009

Chances are, you place your trust in pharmaceutical products. Chances are, when you got an MRA or MRI exam, you thought you were getting results which would help you. You thought your MRI or MRA would pinpoint internal problems and boost your health, thanks to use of an intravenous contrast dye. But if that dye was gadolinium-based, you may have thought wrong.

That’s because gadolinium used in a gadolinium MRI or MRA exam is injuring countless Americans. No, it doesn’t harm everyone. But it can prove seriously damaging to those with pre-existing kidney ailments. In fact, it can spark a potentially life-threatening condition: NSF, or Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis, also known as NFD, or Nephrogenic Fibrosing Dermopathy.

Such conditions can cause tightening and rigidity of the skin which make it difficult to bend the joints. Beyond that, the fibrosis from such conditions can cause multiple organ failures and even lead to death.

Those who survive may be afflicted by other skin disorders, as well as pain in their hips or ribs, and eye spots.

Any patient with a degree of renal failure risks harm if exposed to gadolinium-based contrast dyes during an MRI or MRA exam. Such exposure may not manifest itself immediately, but still can be very dangerous.

One source of such dangers is Omniscan, a gadolinium-based contrast agent injected before an MRA exam. Trade names for other brands using the contrast agent include MultiHance, Magnevist, ProHance and OptiMARK.

If you or a family member has been harmed via use of such products for an MRA or MRI exam, the costs of your medical bills, lost wages and pain and suffering should not be borne alone. Alert an experienced gadolinium lawyer or MRI/MRA lawyer with Jim S. Adler & Associates to get the legal protection you deserve from a defective pharmaceutical product via a gadolinium lawsuit or NSF lawsuit.

Fill out our free case review form on this page and launch the process of regaining your health and your peace of mind. You may have innocently taken your MRI or MRA exam, but now that you know the potentially deadly results, you can get results of your own in the legal arena via a gadolinium lawsuit or NSF lawsuit.

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