Access site complications are major source of morbidity following cardiac catheterization. Their incidence varies in the literature because of multiple definitions and methods of determining the presence of particular complication. The aim of this prospective study was to determine the incidence of access site complications following cardiac catheterization using arterial duplex ultrasonography...

Air embolism is an infrequent but potentially catastrophic complication. It could be a complication of invasive procedures including surgery, central line placement, positive pressure ventilation, trauma, hemodialysis, pacemaker placement, cardiac ablation, and decompression sickness. Usually, it does not cause any hemodynamic complication. In rare cases, it could lodge in the heart and cause c...

Tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) is an acute, life-threatening condition that occurs either spontaneously or as a complication of cytoreductive antitumor therapy, and in both children adults. As result TLS, intracellular components are released into the extracellular space, leading to dysregulation body's homeostasis due accumulation uric acid, phosphate potassium ions, hypocalcemia, which may lead c...

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy or stress is a condition characterized by acute and transient left ventricular systolic dysfunction in the absence of coronary heart disease, occurring after an emotional physical stressful event. Cardiac these patients suspected to be secondary catecholamine induced cardiac myocyte injury via cyclic AMP-mediated calcium overload due endothelial dysfunction. Even though...