During infusion cholangiography, glucagon at 1 mg was equally effective as 2 mg for improving biliary tract visualisation.
In plain wordsDuring cholangiography, 1 mg glucagon improved biliary tract visibility as effectively as 2 mg.
- Peptide
- Glucagon
- Outcome
- Direction not reportedBiliary tract visualisation
- Study
n: not reported in source
- Comparator
- 2 mg intravenous glucagon
- Outcome group
- Biliary Imaging · Gastrointestinal
- Studied dose
- 1 mg · intravenousAs given in this study (human).
Source sentences
It has been shown that a dose of 1 mg of glucagon is equally as effective as 2 mg in improving visualisation of the biliary tract during infusion cholangiography.
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
A series of infusion cholangiograms was obtained using a standard infusion technique of ioglycamide infused at a rate of 0.57 g min-1 over 30 min.
Alternate patients were given either 1 or 2 mg of intravenous glucagon and a comparison of the cholangiograms obtained was then made.