iocarmate-meglumine and Intervertebral-Disc-Displacement

Topics: Adult; Humans; Injections, Spinal; Intervertebral Disc Displacement; Iothalamic Acid; Lumbar Vertebrae; Male; Meglumine; Radiography; Shock; Sorbitol

In radiculomyelogram after operation of lumbar intervertebral disk has been investigated an adhesive arachnopathy in 24 out of 86 patients. It appears increased in patients with two operations of the intervertebral disk, revision of several intervertebral spaces and after massed prolapses. The etiological importance of hyperosmolar X-ray contrast media is comparatively slight. Characteristical clinical findings were not evident in patients with arachnopathy. In some patients the protein content in cerebrospinal fluid was raised, it could be observed as an unspecific reaction and a relative monocytosis in the cytogram. Two third of the patients with recurrent nucleus pulposus prolapse were diagnosed rightly by radiculomyelography, though there are difficulties in the differentiation of adhesive-fibrotic changes.

Topics: Adult; Cauda Equina; Contrast Media; Female; Humans; Intervertebral Disc Displacement; Iothalamic Acid; Laminectomy; Lumbar Vertebrae; Male; Meglumine; Middle Aged; Myelography; Nerve Compression Syndromes; Postoperative Complications; Recurrence; Sorbitol; Spinal Nerve Roots

Topics: Adult; Aged; Female; Headache; Humans; Intervertebral Disc Displacement; Iothalamic Acid; Male; Meglumine; Meningism; Middle Aged; Myelography; Spinal Nerve Roots

Lumbar myelographies were carried out with lopamidol and locarmat of identical concentrations of iodine in 2 groups of 20 patients each. In about one-third of the cases, clinical side effects and EEG changes were found after the examination without difference with the exception of one seizure and one state of confusion which occurred only after locarmat. Resorption of the contrast media was judged by CT examinations of the lumbar spine and the head. There was a more rapid decrease of lumbar contrast density in patients with a narrow lumbar sac which was accompanied by a more rapid intracranial accumulation of the contrast medium. This may be due to a more active transport of cerebrospinal fluid in this group of patients.

Topics: Adult; Aged; Brain; Contrast Media; Electroencephalography; Epilepsy, Tonic-Clonic; Evoked Potentials; Female; Humans; Intervertebral Disc Displacement; Iopamidol; Iothalamic Acid; Male; Meglumine; Middle Aged; Myelography; Sorbitol; Spinal Cord; Spinal Nerve Roots; Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Topics: Aged; Female; Humans; Intervertebral Disc Displacement; Iothalamic Acid; Male; Meglumine; Myelography; Sorbitol; Spinal Diseases