Need for Improved Contrast Dyes to Prevent Life-Threating Consequences Using Non-Human Biological Substances

A most common dangerous consequence of the emergency diagnostic procedures undertaken is organ damage particularly leading to kidney failure, if not immediately but eventually due to steady deterioration of the otherwise “normal” condition of the organ. Organ such as of kidney failure naturally prompts the intervention through dialysis with an expectation, if affordable and/or eventual availability of a matching donor, should the affected patient survive the ongoing ordeal until the transplant. Needless to state here is that the transplanted organ could be fraught with deleterious effects such as face a rejection by the recipient, or onset of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Reagent induced cardiac stress test is another example of the risk involved in the IV injection of a radioactive contrast dye for echocardiogram. Stroke (intracranial hemorrhage) is yet another dangerous side effect of the contrast dyes should their circulation in the brain adversely affect the blood flow particularly if it leads to formation of a blood clot, or sensitize that clot, or any benign or hitherto undetected tissue growth [7].