Is Oral Contrast Necessary for Multidetector Computed Tomography Imaging of Patients With Acute Abdominal Pain?
Omitting oral contrast for imaging patients with BMI>25 presenting with acute abdominal pain resulted in no delayed or missed diagnoses, in our retrospective study. The benefits of prompt imaging diagnosis outweigh the unlikely need for repeat imaging.
These results disclose that prefrontal attentional processes to food size are abnormal in obese subjects.