Complications of Laser-Assisted Angioplasty: Definition and Classification of Perforations

AUTOR(ES)

Diethrich, Edward B.

RESUMO

Although laser-assisted angioplasty is becoming increasingly common, there has been no definitive report, drawing its data from a significant patient population, regarding the complications of this technique. To define and enumerate such adverse results, we collected data on 664 peripheral laser procedures performed in 349 patients over a 15-month period (February 1987 through April 1988). The complications proved similar to those of standard angioplasty: hematoma formation, 100 cases (15.0%); perforation/dissection, 38 cases (5.7%); acute thrombosis, 23 cases (3.5%); false aneurysm formation at the puncture site, 7 cases (1.1%); vascular spasm, 5 cases (0.8%); and embolism, 1 case (0.2%).

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