Whole-Body CTA with Reduced Radiation Dose and only 20 mL of Contrast Media

Mathias Meyer, MD, Holger Haubenreisser, MD, Sonja Sudarski, MD, Stefan O. Schönberg, MD, Thomas Henzler, MD
Institute of Clinical Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University Medical Centre Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Germany
|2014-05-13

A 70-year-old female patient was referred to our emergency department complaining about a new onset of back pain and malignant hypertension. The initially performed CTA, on a 16-slice single source CT with 100 mL contrast media, revealed a Stanford B dissection. The patient was again referred to our department for re-evaluation, 12 hours later, with progressive back pain, a new onset of chest pain and increasing blood creatinine levels.