Korean Journal of Cerebrovascular Surgery  2010;12(4):245-249

Contrast Medium-Induced Transient Neurologic Deteriorations Following Cerebral angiography and Coil Embolization for Unruptured Aneurysm: Report of Two Cases.

Young Jun SEO 1 ; Chang Hwa CHOI

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Keywords

Blood brain barrier disruption; Cerebral angiography complication; Contrast medium

Country

Republic of Korea

Language

English

Abstract

Cerebral angiography with contrast medium (CM) is a key method for diagnosis and interventional treatment of intracranial cerebral vascular lesions. Cerebral angiography causes few neurologic complications. There have been rare reports of complications related to disruption of the blood-brain barrier due to the administration of nonionic CM. We observed two patients with transient neurologic complications following cerebral angiography and coil embolization for unruptured aneurysm.