Author: Asunción Torregrosa, València (Spain)
Body Region: Abdomen and Pelvis
1. Patient Presentation
- A 60-year-old woman presented with epigastric abdominal pain.
- Laboratory tests were normal.
- Gastroscopy and abdominal ultrasonography revealed no abnormality.
- An abdominal CT was performed to rule out pancreatic disease.
- The patient had never been administered contrast medium.
- Immediately after iodinated contrast administration, she developed generalized erythema, pruritus, and bronchospasm with oxygen saturation measured by pulse oximetry [SpO2] of 94%.
- She had no hypotension or bradycardia.