title: Complications of cardiac catheterization: a single-center study.
abstract: In Turkey as well as in the whole world, cardiac catheterization is an invasive intervention that is being increasingly used both for diagnosis and treatment. With technological and pharmacologic development and experience, the indications for this intervention are ever increasing. This invasive intervention brings, of course, some complications with it. These may range from local ones to death. In this study the authors analyzed the local cardiac complications and those related to other systems that they encountered in 10,445 catheterizations conducted for diagnosis and treatment in their clinic over a 26-month period. They found the rate of all complications to be 3.54% (2.05% diagnostic, 9.1% therapeutic). Of these complications, 1.89% (0.80% diagnostic, 6.02% therapeutic) were cardiac, 1.27% (0.97% diagnostic, 2.4% therapeutic) local. They found that the ratios of death were 0.09% for diagnostic interventions, 1.13% for therapeutic interventions, and 0.31% altogether. In the diagnostic group 0.02% required urgent coronary bypass surgery, and 0.41% needed urgent coronary bypass surgery in the therapeutic group. In conclusion, despite the noticeable changes in patient profile and application, the ratios for cardiac catheterization have changed little over the years.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Sani Konukoglu Medical Center, Gaziantep, Turkey.
authors.forename: Talantbek
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Batyraliev
authors.forename: M Resat
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Ayalp
authors.forename: Alper
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sercelik
authors.forename: Zarema
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Karben
authors.forename: Gurkan
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dinler
authors.forename: Fikret
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Besnili
authors.forename: Sami
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ozgul
authors.forename: Igor
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Perchucov
mesh_terms: D000206:Actuarial Analysis; D017541:Aneurysm, False / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality; D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000401:mortality; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality; D002423:Cause of Death; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D004630:Emergencies; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D006406:Hematoma / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality; D016019:Survival Analysis; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology