Complications of Vascular Surgery (inc. Angiography)
General surgical complications
- Risks of anaesthesia (local or general)
- Haemorrhage
- Infection
- Poor wound healing
- Trauma
Complications of generalised arteriopathy
- Acute myocardial ischaemia
- CVAs
- Renal failure
- Intestinal ischaemia
Haemorrhage
Thrombosis
- Of reconstructed vessels
- Of vessels with slowed flow (angio.)
Embolism
- Into limb or renal vessels ('Trash foot')
Other
- Graft infection
- False Aneurysm Formation
- Progressive lower limb ischaemia
For Angiography/-plasty
- Anaphylactic reaction to the dye
- Renal failure
- Usually cholesterol emboli
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