Vascular Imaging With Ferumoxytol as a Contrast Agent.

Hope, Michael D; Hope, Thomas A; Zhu, Chengcheng; Faraji, Farshid; Haraldsson, Henrik; Ordovas, Karen G; Saloner, David · AJR Am J Roentgenol · 2015

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Abstract

Ferumoxytol is increasingly reported as an alternative to gadolinium-based contrast agents for MR angiography (MRA), particularly for patients with renal failure. This article summarizes more than 3 years of clinical experience with ferumoxytol-enhanced MRA for a range of indications and anatomic regions. Ferumoxytol-enhanced MRA has many advantages including that it is safe for patients with renal failure and provides a lengthy plateau of vascular signal as a blood pool agent that allows longer navigated MRA sequences.

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