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Jimbo
How long after the insertion of a stent can you have an MRI of the kidney area
My stent was a cardiac stent and I am told that the latest literature indicates that you should wait as long as a year to have an MRI of the kidney after a cardiac stent.
I had to have a brain MRI after receiving stents. I don't recall the time period but it wasn't as long as three months. At the time of your stents I'm sure you received a card stating the type of Stent(s), date, the Doctor, etc. I had to present those cards of all my stents to the MRI staff, both recently inserted and those as long as five years ago, and I believe the manufacturers were contacted before the MRI to get the necessary clearance for the procedure.
I forgot to mention that I had an MRI of the brain (none was found...) at least 3 months after a coronary artery stent. I felt a tugging in the stent area. Could have been my imagination, maybe not.
Those magnets are so powerful that there can be nothing in the room that is attracted by a magnet. Cans of whatever and such have killed technicians before.
Another thing is that once you have a stent, the marvelous new, high tech imaging devices, MRIs and CT Scans are not trusted to image blockage within a stent or re-stenosis. I have read of trials where one or another or both the latest and greatest MRI and CT Scan technology CAN estimate the blockage within a stent with high accuracy. Docs still will do a cardiac cath or angiography because they need the money :) Ah now, that was below the belt.
Never go to a hospital for a cath that doesn't have IVUS (intravenous ultrasound). If not for this technology, my last re-stenotic stent would have looked just great.
Those magnets are so powerful that there can be nothing in the room that is attracted by a magnet. Cans of whatever and such have killed technicians before.
Another thing is that once you have a stent, the marvelous new, high tech imaging devices, MRIs and CT Scans are not trusted to image blockage within a stent or re-stenosis. I have read of trials where one or another or both the latest and greatest MRI and CT Scan technology CAN estimate the blockage within a stent with high accuracy. Docs still will do a cardiac cath or angiography because they need the money :) Ah now, that was below the belt.
Never go to a hospital for a cath that doesn't have IVUS (intravenous ultrasound). If not for this technology, my last re-stenotic stent would have looked just great.
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