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Radiology, Vol 162, 125-127, Copyright © 1987 by Radiological Society of North America

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Complications of outpatient transbrachial intraarterial digital subtraction angiography. Work in progress

KJ Gritter, WW Laidlaw and NT Peterson

To assess the safety of nonselective intraarterial digital subtraction angiography (DSA) performed from a brachial artery approach, the complications of 660 consecutive examinations, most of which (greater than 95%) were performed on outpatients, were studied. Contrast material injections into the aorta were made through a 4-F multiple side-hole pigtail catheter inserted percutaneously from the brachial artery. Two brachial artery complications severe enough to require surgery occurred (one hematoma and one arterial laceration/thrombosis), for a rate of 0.3%. No cerebrovascular complications were encountered. Delayed and minor complications were retrospectively studied in 137 patients; they included local arm pain in 24 patients (17.5%), transient paresthesia in ten (7.3%), ecchymosis in 69 (50.4%), and hematoma in 13 (9.5%). The transbrachial approach to nonselective intraarterial DSA is a safe alternative to the femoral artery approach.


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