This page discusses the common questions transplant professionals as well as transplant patients may have with COVID-19. We have few facts and little evidence, and those are laid out below. Locally, the decisions being taken depend on local resources, logistics and other factors, and hence local practice may appropriately vary.
Chapter 9- Knuckleheads and Nerds
Does Contrast cause acute Kidney Injury?
Iodinated contrast is well known to cause acute kidney injury (AKI), mainly from its physico-chemical properties, and is the commonly cited as being the third most common cause of AKI in hospitalized patients. But is this really true? Even the term contrast-induced AKI (CI-AKI) is now being increasingly replaced by contrast-associated AKI (CA-AKI), and could contrast be an 'innocent bystander'?