Can water-based myelogram dyes cause arachnoiditis?
For the answer we incude the following quotes: Study by IHJ Bourne, MD In the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Vol. 83 April l990 titled Lumbo-sacral Adnesive arachnoiditis: a review, in the introduction, the fourth paragraph says: “In spite of the fact that oil-based iodine agents have been abandoned there is still the risk that water-based iodine preparations will in some way cause arachnoiditis . The present trend towards the use of non-invasive electronic scanning techniques brings hope that myeolgraphy using iodine-based media or indeed any other medium will become a thing of the past.” Study by IHJ Bourne, MD In his article entitled Adhesive Arachnoiditis: Water-Soluble Myelography Dr. Charles Burton,MD reports the following regarding the incidence of adhesive arachnoiditis from water-soluable dyes: “It is quite small with the water-soluable contrast agents, particularly with the non-ionic agents. This is not to say that the water-soluable agents haven’t been associated w
