The procedure is sometimes associated with stroke or kidney damage, but the researchers didn’t find any cases of these complications within their review of patients between 2000 and 2010. The review included 300 patients who underwent diagnostic spinal angiography.
Even though the procedure has been refined since it was first used in the 1970s and the complication risks are now much lower, patients and physicians are still reluctant to perform the procedure that could rule out misdiagnoses of vascular malformation as transverse myelitis.
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