Your doctor has ordered an MRI examination to help determine your diagnosis.
The following items can interfere with MRI imaging and some can be hazardous
to your safty.
Please check the approiate boxes:
DO NOT ENTER THE MAGNET ROOM WITH ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
Heart Pacemaker
Jewelry
Any Electronic Device
Watches
Hair Pins
Hearing Aid
Dentures
Coins
Pocket Knife
Safty Pins
The radiologist may deem it nessessary to give you the I.V. injection
of a contrast liquid containing galolinium to improve the quality of your
MR examination. Although gadolinium contrast agents have been used safely
in millions of patients, minor reactions (principally headache or nausea)
occur in 2% of patients, and serious or life threateningreactions have
been reported in 1 in 400,000 patients.
GFR acceptable range >51
GFR 30-50 - half dose
GFR <30 - contact Radiologist
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