(Reuters Health) - Women who don't realize they're pregnant when they undergo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may be exposed to a chemical that ...
- Women who don't realize they're pregnant when they undergo magnetic resonance imaging may be exposed to a chemical that might not be safe for the fetus, a new report warns.
Bird and colleagues used the FDA-funded Sentinel Distributed Database to analyze data from nearly 4.7 million pregnancies in that resulted in live births between 2006 and 2017. They looked for the prevalence of MRI procedures with and without GBCAs among pregnant women, including the trimester and the location of the scan on the body.
"Increased attention to pregnancy screening measures may help reduce inadvertent exposure to gadolinium," Bird said."Healthcare providers should use GBCAs only when the additional diagnostic information provided by contrast is necessary."
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