Nonhealing wound resulting from a foreign-body reaction to a radial arterial sheath.
Several patients developed sterile inflammation at their radial arterial access site. Pathologic examination of biopsy material from one patient demonstrated a foreign-body reaction to material most likely from the gel-coated arterial access sheath. Surgical excision of the inflamed tissue resulted in healing.
Subramanian
Rajesh
R
Department of Cardiology, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, Louisiana 70121, USA.
White
Christopher J
CJ
Sternbergh
W Charles
WC
Ferguson
Daniel L
DL
Gilchrist
Ian C
IC
D000368:Aged; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000503:physiopathology; D004890:Erythema / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D005549:Foreign-Body Reaction / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016491:Peripheral Vascular Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology; D017534:Radial Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013529:Surgical Wound Dehiscence / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology*