Patients are frequently asked about iodine or seafood allergy before IV contrast material is administered because of a commonly held belief among radiologists and others in the medical community of a specific cross-reactivity between iodinated radiographic contrast material and other iodine-rich substances.
Pericarditis is inflammation of the pericardium, two thin layers of a sac-like tissue that surrounds the heart, holds it in place and helps it work. A small amount of fluid keeps the layers separate so that thereâs no friction between them.
PANS is the acronym for P ediatric A cute-onset N europsychiatric S yndrome, a more recently defined disorder which encompasses the more familiar medical condition, PAN DAS or P ediatric A utoimmune N europsychiatric D isorder A ssociated with S treptococcal infections.here is a growing number of publications on PANS, with the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology (JCAP) publishing a special edition on the syndrome in February 2015.