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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
15
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-6-9
pubmed:abstractText
The reported incidence of acute neurologic complications of left heart catheterization varies from 0.03% to 0.3%. The predisposing risk factors, clinical features, and natural history have not been well characterized. We retrospectively reviewed all cases of acute neurologic complications developing during or within 36 hours of diagnostic catheterization or angioplasty to determine the incidence, clinical features, and natural history, and (using a case-control methodology) the clinical variables associated with their development. During the 37-month study, 6,465 patients underwent diagnostic left-sided cardiac catheterization and balloon angioplasty or valvuloplasty, and 27 patients developed an acute neurologic complication (0.4%). The most common symptoms were visual disturbances (26%), hemiparesis (26%), and facial droop (26%). Deficits were localizable to the anterior or posterior circulation in 22 patients: posterior in 8 (36%), and anterior in 14 (64%). Long-term follow-up was available in all patients, with 17 of 27 (63%) having complete resolution with no residuum. With use of a case-control methodology and multiple logistic regression analysis, female gender, the presence of left ventricular hypertrophy, depressed ejection fraction, and the presence of > or = 2 coronary arteries with > 50% narrowing were independent predictors of a neurologic event.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0002-9149
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
75
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1056-60
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:7747689-Acute Disease, pubmed-meshheading:7747689-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:7747689-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:7747689-Aged, 80 and over, pubmed-meshheading:7747689-Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary, pubmed-meshheading:7747689-Balloon Dilation, pubmed-meshheading:7747689-Cardiac Output, Low, pubmed-meshheading:7747689-Case-Control Studies, pubmed-meshheading:7747689-Coronary Disease, pubmed-meshheading:7747689-Female, pubmed-meshheading:7747689-Follow-Up Studies, pubmed-meshheading:7747689-Heart Catheterization, pubmed-meshheading:7747689-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:7747689-Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular, pubmed-meshheading:7747689-Incidence, pubmed-meshheading:7747689-Logistic Models, pubmed-meshheading:7747689-Male, pubmed-meshheading:7747689-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:7747689-Nervous System Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:7747689-Retrospective Studies, pubmed-meshheading:7747689-Risk Factors, pubmed-meshheading:7747689-Sex Factors
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Predisposing risk factors and natural history of acute neurologic complications of left-sided cardiac catheterization.
pubmed:affiliation
Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pennsylvania, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article