Left in the Brain: Potentially Toxic Residue from MRI Drugs

https://www.propublica.org/article/left-in-the-brain-potentially-toxic-residue-from-mri-drugs

The Food and Drug Administration put a “black box” warning on the drugs the following year, saying patients with kidney impairment may be at risk of NSF because they were unable to excrete the gadolinium…  Doctors now routinely screen MRI patients for kidney problems before injecting them with contrast agents…

GE and Bayer have confidentially settled hundreds of lawsuits – many involving deaths – while denying liability for their contrast agents.  In 2013, one case went to trial in Cleveland and resulted in a $5 million verdict against GE. A federal appeals court upheld the verdict last year. By then the plaintiff, who had NSF, had died…