Preventing Contrast Nephropathy With Sodium Bicarbonate in Patients With Pulmonary Edema,Heart Failure,Uncontrolled HTN
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2008-07-01
Target enrollment:
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Summary
Radio Contrast Induced Nephropathy (RCIN) remains a well recognized complication in patients
undergoing diagnostic or interventional procedures requiring radiographic contrast agents.
Recent studies have shown benefit in administering Sodium Bicarbonate over normal saline( the
uniformly accepted prophylaxy) in preventing RCIN.But most studies have excluded patients
with history of pulmonary edema, severe heart failure(NYHA 3-4), uncontrolled hypertension or
ejection fraction less than 30%. Therefore the aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy
of sodium bicarbonate solved in half saline compared with infusion of half saline in
prevention of RCIN in these groups of patients.