radiopaque
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If a woman has certain radiopaque dyes injected for gall-bladder X rays, for example, a baby that she bears several years later may have an abnormal level of iodine in the blood.
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To guard against clots, he flushed out the whole artery-vein system with a special saline solution combined with antibiotics, an anticoagulant and a radiopaque dye.
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A second diagnostic advance comes from use of radiopaque dyes, which are injected into arteries leading to the brain: X rays help to locate obstructions to circulation resulting from thromboses and especially aneurysms.
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In some cases, the next thing to do is inject radiopaque dye into the patient's arm or neck arteries and take an arteriogram, a rapid-fire series of X rays.
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The technique, he reported in a learned paper in 1929, would be valuable for studying the blood pressure inside the heart, and for injecting radiopaque dyes to get X rays of the heart, including abnormalities.
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