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Bitsch M, Liisberg-Larsen O, Schroeder TV. Vascular complications following therapeutic and diagnostic cardiac catheterisation by the femoral artery. Int J Risk Saf Med. 1994;4(3):191-5doi: 10.3233/JRS-1994-4302.
Bitsch, M., Liisberg-Larsen, O., & Schroeder, T. V. (1994). Vascular complications following therapeutic and diagnostic cardiac catheterisation by the femoral artery. The International journal of risk & safety in medicine, 4(3), 191-5. https://doi.org/10.3233/JRS-1994-4302
Bitsch, M, et al. "Vascular complications following therapeutic and diagnostic cardiac catheterisation by the femoral artery." The International journal of risk & safety in medicine vol. 4,3 (1994): 191-5. doi: https://doi.org/10.3233/JRS-1994-4302
Bitsch M, Liisberg-Larsen O, Schroeder TV. Vascular complications following therapeutic and diagnostic cardiac catheterisation by the femoral artery. Int J Risk Saf Med. 1994;4(3):191-5. doi: 10.3233/JRS-1994-4302. PMID: 23511256.
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Int J Risk Saf Med. 1994;4(3):191-5. doi: 10.3233/JRS-1994-4302.

Vascular complications following therapeutic and diagnostic cardiac catheterisation by the femoral artery.

The International journal of risk & safety in medicine

M Bitsch, O Liisberg-Larsen, T V Schroeder

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  1. Department of Vascular Surgery, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.

PMID: 23511256 DOI: 10.3233/JRS-1994-4302

Abstract

Twenty-one of 6327 (0.33%) patients undergoing cardiac catheterisation via the femoral artery had an acute vascular complication requiring surgical intervention. The complication rate was 0.1% after coronary angiography, 2% after PTCA and 6% after aortic ballon dilatation. The size of the catheter and the duration of catheterisation were found to be risk factors. Most commonly simple arterial repair and/or thrombectomy was performed. No mortality was observed. Only in one case was blood transfusion necessary. The outcome of surgery was in all cases a good revascularisation of the leg. Registration and evaluation of vascular injuries following diagnostic and therapeutic invasive interventions could have a self limitating effect on the complication rate.

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