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Short-term femoral nerve complications following percutaneous transfemoral procedures
J M Jarosz1, B McKeown, J F Reidy
1Department of Radiology, Guy's Hospitals, London, England.
Purpose:
To determine the prevalence of transient femoral nerve anesthesia following transfemoral angiographic procedures.
Patients And Methods:
Fifty-eight patients undergoing a variety of routine transfemoral procedures underwent a neurologic assessment within an hour of the procedure.
Results:
Nine patients (16%) were found to have complete or partial deficits in the ipsilateral femoral nerve territory. All deficits were transient.
Conclusions:
Transient femoral nerve deficits are not uncommon following transfemoral procedures. With the advent of true outpatient vascular procedures (where the patient may walk away after only a 30-minutes recovery period following a transvenous intervention or after 60 minutes following arteriography), transient neurologic problems related to the infiltration of local anesthetic around the femoral artery assume real clinical importance.