title: Safety of percutaneous transfemoral coronary and peripheral procedures via aortofemoral synthetic vascular grafts.
abstract: Our objective was to evaluate the safety of percutaneous transfemoral catheterization performed by way of synthetic aortofemoral vascular grafts. Between 1994 and 2003, 123 catheterization procedures were performed using a synthetic aortofemoral graft (median graft age 2.5 years, range 4 days to 10.3 years), including 63 (51%) interventional and 60 (49%) diagnostic procedures. Adverse events related to vascular access occurred in 7 of 123 procedures (5.7%), including blood transfusion (4.1%), thrombotic occlusion (1.6%), transient limb ischemia (0.8%), and retroperitoneal hemorrhage (0.8%). No deaths, graft infections, or pseudoaneurysms occurred.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA.
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Gallagher
authors.forename: Simon R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Dixon
authors.forename: Robert D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Safian
authors.forename: Mohan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Madala
authors.forename: Renny
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Abraham
authors.forename: Steven D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Rimar
authors.forename: Stephen J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Mattichak
authors.forename: William W
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: O'Neill
authors.forename: Joel K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Kahn
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001011:Aorta; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation*; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D005260:Female; D005263:Femoral Artery / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg / Q000098:blood supply; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012449:Safety