Why Gadolinium with MP-MRI, Dan Margolis, MD Answers | Excerpt from the 2019 PCRI Conference

Radiologist Daniel Margolis, MD, answers a patient's question on the safety of gadolinium (the contrast dye used for MRI) at the 2019 Prostate Cancer Patient Conference.
Daniel Margolis, MD, is an Associate Professor of Radiology at the Weill Cornell Medical College and an Associate Attending Radiologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He received a B.A. from UC Berkeley in 1992 and his medical degree at the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 1998. He went on to serve his community by completing an internship at the Los Angeles Department of Veterans Affairs. He finished his residency at the UCLA Medical Center in 2003 and completed a prestigious fellowship at Stanford University sponsored by the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Margolis specializes in abdominal imaging and has co-authored nearly 100 publications, many of which focus on prostate imaging.
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[@nvan78]

Gadolinium was used as a contrast agent for my prostate MRI. No issues.

[@thomasjones1496]

Ya me too, must be OK