August 4, 2011
As a precaution, Bracco Diagnostics, Inc. asks that clinicians immediately stop using CardioGen-83 and voluntarily initiated a recall after recently receiving reports of two patients who had received more radiation than expected due to strontium isotopes which may have been inadvertently injected due to a “strontium breakthrough” problem with CardioGen-82.
To learn more on this issue, please click here: http://www.snm.org/index.cfm?PageID=10891