Diagnostic use of contrast medium and the kidney: A challenge or a ghost?

Abstract

Contrast medium and the kidney: from an etiological to an associative relationship The first reports on the association between the administration of iodinated Contrast Medium (CM) and the development of AKI date back to the mid-1950s. 4 The acronym CIN (Contrast-Induced Nephropathy) appears at the beginning of the 1970s. 5 In those years, high-dosage (up to 70 g