Biomed Pap Med Fac Univ Palacky Olomouc Czech Repub. 2021, 165(4):452-453 | DOI: 10.5507/bp.2020.027

Radial artery pseudoaneurysm as a rare very late complication of transradial cardiac catheterization

Radomir Nykl, Jan Precek, Milos Spacek, Martin Sluka, Stepan Hudec, Petr Heinc, Milos Taborsky
Department of Internal Medicine I - Cardiology, University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic

Aims: Here, we report a case of very late (70+ days) development of pseudoaneurysm on the site of sheath insertion in a 60- year old woman.

Methods: The patient underwent cardiac catheterization using transradial approach.

Results: Despite the transradial approach, which is generally considered as a suitable prevention of this problem, and despite absence of any periprocedural complications, the patient developed a pseudoaneurysm after more than 70 days from the procedure.

Conclusions: In some cases, a pseudoaneurysm may develop extremely late after cardiac catheterization. Such an extremely late development of pseudoaneurysm has not been described in literature so far.

Keywords: pseudoaneurysm, transradial approach, cardiac catheterization

Received: April 23, 2020; Revised: May 25, 2020; Accepted: June 16, 2020; Prepublished online: June 26, 2020; Published: November 23, 2021  Show citation

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Nykl, R., Precek, J., Spacek, M., Sluka, M., Hudec, S., Heinc, P., & Taborsky, M. (2021). Radial artery pseudoaneurysm as a rare very late complication of transradial cardiac catheterization. Biomedical papers, 165(4), 452-453. doi: 10.5507/bp.2020.027
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