South Florida medical imaging center mammograms may be invalid, FDA warns: 4 things to know

Imaging

The FDA warned women who received mammograms from a Deerfield Beach, Fla.-based medical imaging center that their results may be invalid, WSVN in Miami reports.

Here are four things to know:

 

1. The FDA issued the warning after a yearly inspection of the Palm Beach-Broward Medical Imaging Center found multiple violations, including issues with the way women were positioned on the X-ray machines.

 

2. Kaya Colak, MD, owned the center, which was later renamed Radiology Express but shut down in 2017. Dr. Colak told WSVN that he is in contact with the FDA and is trying to rectify the situation.

 

3. The FDA says the larger issue is that the facility has not notified patients about potential issues with their mammograms as it was ordered to do. Women who received mammograms at the center may have breast cancer and be unaware of it.

 

4. While the mammograms are not necessarily inaccurate, the FDA urges women who had a mammogram at the office after April 2, 2016, to speak with their physician about getting a new mammogram.

 

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