Korean J Gastrointest Endosc.  2006 Feb;32(2):101-108.

Comparative Cholangiocytotoxicity between Ioxithalamate and Iopromide with Short-term Exposure

Affiliations
  • 1Division of Gastroenterology, Ulsan University College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea. sklee@amc.seoul.kr

Abstract

BACKGROUND/AIMS: In a previous study examining long-term exposure to contrast media, high-osmolar ionic contrast media were reported to be more cytotoxic to gallbladder epithelial cells than low-osmolar nonionic contrast media. However, biliary epithelial cells are rarely exposed to contrast media for such long periods in clinical practice. This study compared the cytotoxicity of two types of contrast media to gallbladder epithelial cells exposed for a short-term.
METHODS
Ioxithalamate and iopromide were tested, and dog gallbladder epithelial cells were used as the test cells. The cells were exposed to the two contrast agents with increasing iodine concentration and osmolality for 30 minutes. The number of cells, aneuploidy and supernatant LDH activities were measured each day.
RESULTS
The growth of cells exposed to the two contrast media was significantly reduced but there was no difference between the two contrast media at the same iodine concentration. The level of cell lysis measured by the supernatant LDH activities before the triton X-100 treatment was similar with the two contrast media. No aneuploidy fraction was detected in any of the cell groups treated with the two contrast media for 5 days.
CONCLUSIONS
In contrast to previous results, high-osmolar ionic and low-osmolar nonionic contrast media with short-term exposure were found to have a similar cytotoxicity to biliary epithelial cells.

Keyword

Contrast media; Gallbladder epithelial cells; ERCP; Cytotoxicity

MeSH Terms

Aneuploidy
Animals
Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde
Contrast Media
Dogs
Epithelial Cells
Gallbladder
Iodine
Octoxynol
Osmolar Concentration
Contrast Media
Iodine
Octoxynol
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