1st Edition

Complications in Peripheral Vascular Interventions

252 Pages 278 B/W Illustrations

by CRC Press

268 Pages

by CRC Press

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Increasing evidence suggests that particularly in high-risk patients, endovascular solutions offer substantial advantages compared to vascular surgical procedures. Nevertheless, growing numbers of procedures are associated with an increased incidence of complications. Knowledge of specific complications in different vessel areas will support the interventionist in preventing such adverse events... Read more

Part I: Complications – General Considerations 1. Introduction – Overview on the Frequency of Complications, Top Five Worst Scenarios 2. Identifying high risk patients for endovascular treatment – unfavourable medical comorbidities, unfavourable vascular conditions 3. Being prepared – adequate bail-out equipment, access and standards of emergency imaging modalities, postintervention care 4. General complications of angiography 5. Radiotoxicity 6. Contrast-media associated complications

Part II: Specific Complications by Vessel Area or Specific Scenarios 7. Arterial and venous access site complications 8. Complications of local and systemic thrombolysis 9. Carotid interventions 10. Subclavian and vertebral interventions 11. Aortic aneurymal disease 12. Renal and mesenteric arteries 13. Aortoiliac segment 14. Femoropopliteal segment 15. Tibioperoneal interventions 16. Dialysis fistulas 17. Venous interventions.

Summary and Conclusion