Gadiodiamide Side Effects

Gadiodiamide Omniscan Vial Intravenous Injection

Serious Adverse Side Effects

Gadiodiamide has some very serious adverse side effects associated with it, such as:

Dermatological side effects such as nephrogenic systemic fibrosis, a rare and serious skin condition
Renal side effects such as acute injury of kidneys
Other side effects such as angioedema, a rare and serious allergic reaction to the drug that involves rapid swelling of the skin

Warnings & Recalls for Gadiodiamide

Black Box Warning

Gadiodiamide has a “black box” warning associated with it that denotes that patients with serious and life-threatening conditions such as heart disease, renal disease or who’ve got epilepsy might not be able to take this drug. A drug such as Gadiodiamide might make these conditions much worse. Patients who’ve got renal disease must especially exercise caution as they probably won’t be able to eliminate this drug from their system in a timely manner. Patients with these conditions must inform their healthcare practitioner about having these conditions before being administered this drug.

Contraindications

Gadiodiamide is contraindicated in patients with renal disease, specifically.

Precautions

Patients with these following preexisting conditions must inform their healthcare practitioners of them before being administered this drug. These include:

Patients with diabetes
Elderly patients
Patients with hypertension
Patients with a history of poor drug elimination
Patients with asthma
Patients with a history of allergies
Patients with hypersensitivity problems
Patients with renal disease
Patients with heart disease
Patients with epilepsy

Pregnancy Warning

This drug has a pregnancy category rating of “C” by the FDA, implying that risk to the fetus cannot be ruled out.

Gadiodiamide Treatment and Use

Gadodiamide is a drug that’s administered intravenously, as a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrasting agent, to help diagnose problems in the spine, brain, chest, stomach, hip area or other parts of the body. This drug is known as an Gadolinium-based contrast agent. MRI scans are usually a special kind of diagnostic procedure that uses magnets and computers to create “pictures” or images of certain parts of the body. Unlike x-rays, MRI scans don’t involve ionizing radiation. It is worth noting that this drug is never dispensed like a prescription, however it is only administered to a patient under the supervision of a healthcare provider in a hospital or clinical setting.

Please refer to the “Warnings and Recalls” tab to get more information about this drug’s “Black Box” warning.

How This Drug Works

Gadodiamide has the mechanism of action of being a magnetic resonance imaging contrast agent that is administered intravenously before MRI scans. By it being present in the body, it aids and assists in displaying images that convey to a physician or healthcare practitioner the source of a patient’s ailment.

Dosage Information

This drug is only administered at a hospital or clinical setting. Usually the healthcare practitioner will know how much to inject intravenously.