Intracardiac Shunts Among Patients Undergoing Oil-Based Contrast Lymphangiography: Prevalence and Rate of Systemic Arterial Embolic Complications.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the prevalence of systemic embolic complications after oil-based contrast lymphangiography.

Patients and methods

A retrospective medical record review of all patients undergoing oil-based lymphangiographic procedures from January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2021 was performed to identify the following: (a) the rate of systemic embolic complications after the procedure; (b) the presence of preprocedure echocardiographic assessment for right-to-left shunting; and (c) the presence of right-to-left shunting after a systemic embolic complication.

Results

A total of 350 patients (200 male, 57%) underwent 400 oil-based lymphangiographic procedures. A total of 2 systemic embolic complications occurred for a prevalence of 0.5% (2/400). Preprocedure echocard

SUBMITTER: Nedderman W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11497125 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature