The efficacy of ultrasound-guided compression of iatrogenic femoral pseudo-aneurysms.

Lange, P; Houe, T; Helgstrand, U J · Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg · 2001

retrospective_cohort · Level III

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Abstract

to evaluate ultrasound guided compression (UGC) for the treatment of iatrogenic femoral pseudoaneurysms (PA). retrospective follow-up of 130 patients with suspected PA referred from the cardiac catheterisation laboratory over a 36-month period. the overall incidence of PA was 0.5% and was significantly higher after therapeutic (1.5%) than diagnostic (0.3%) procedures (p <0.000001). Forty-eight patients with a PA were treated with UGC with an 88% success rate. Success did not appear to be related to PA diameter. the efficacy of UGC as treatment of PAs is confirmed.

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