Hospitals low on contrast dye are doing some CT scans without it or are booking patients weeks or months in advance. Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images Erin Dwyer has been doing a lot of waiting.

While CT scans have been postponed for weeks or months after a COVID-19-related shutdown interrupted one plant's contrast dye production, hospitals could decrease their use up to 83 percent ...

Approximately 60% of CT scans use a contrast agent to differentiate between organs and detect lesions, according to UWMC. The same iodine contrast is used in other procedures such as angiograms.

Contrast dye for CT scans is the latest shortage in a revolving door of supply issues. ... and his doctors had ordered a CT scan with contrast to check that the cancer hadn’t spread anywhere else.

“Scheduling of any delayed outpatient CT scans that require contrast will resume as supplies of the dye are restored.” NEW: FDA restricts J&J’s COVID-19 vaccine due to blood clot risk ...

NCH’s action plan calls for a 25% reduction of iodinated contrast doses, which will pose no difference in quality. They will also substitute with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) when possible.

Dye is used for IV contrast in CT scans and some MRIs. LCMC Health discussed how it is dealing with the dye shortage. ... CT scans and MRIs are important to many diagnoses and health care.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences usually performs 80 to 90 CT scans per day, using intravenous contrast dye for two-thirds of them, said Dr. Michelle Krause, a nephrologist and the ...

Now those increments are stretching out for Lorio and many patients who rely on CT scans to monitor and diagnose a number of illnesses. A nationwide shortage of the contrast dye that makes her ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - An Eastern Iowa family says a loved one diagnosed with cancer can’t receive the needed CT scan because of a global shortage of contrast dye.

A very few people have long-lasting low thyroid levels after iodine exposure, such as the IV contrast dye for CT scan. People are also reading… New earthquakes on the New Madrid fault are coming.