angiographic complications of vascular surgery in imam reza hospital in kermanshah 2010-2011

the aim of this study is to evaluate the complication rate of diagnostic and interventional angioplasty performed by vascular surgeon in imam reza hospital in kermanshah, in 2010-2011. in this descriptive –analytic study, 259 patients who underwent diagnostic interventional angiography in imam reza hospital of kermanshah were selected using convenience sampling. the data gathering tool was a pre- angiography form and a complication check list. the data were analyzed using spss-16 and fishers and chi-square tests. in this study, 84.3% of patients were male and 15.7% were female. the most common method of vascular access was right femoral angiography. the incidence rate of bleeding after angiography was 0.77%, pseudo aneurysm was 0.38%, regional hematoma was 0.38% and infection  was 0.38%.the overall complication rates was 1.9%.