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Femoral endarteritis as a complication of percutaneous coronary intervention
1Brown University School of Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital, Division of Cardiology, 593 Eddy Street, Providence, RI 02903, USA.
The Journal of Invasive Cardiology
|March 24, 2000
Abstract:
Infectious complications following percutaneous coronary interventions are extremely unusual, with a reported frequency of less than 1%. This report describes a patient who developed septic endarteritis as a complication of percutaneous coronary intervention and reviews the literature of this complication.