PCI complications: factors associated with complications

Editors-In-Chief: Alexandra Almonacid M.D. [1]; Jeffrey J. Popma M.D. [2]

Factors Associated with Complications

Clinical variables
- Women
- Advanced Age
- Diabetes mellitus
- Unstable or Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) Class IV angina
- Congestive heart failure
- Cardiogenic shock
- Renal insufficiency
- Preprocedural instability requiring intraaortic balloon pump support
- Preprocedural Elevation of C-reactive protein
- Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease
Anatomic variables
- Left Main Disease
- Thrombus
- SVG intervention
- ACC/AHA Type B2 and C lesion morphology
- Chronic total coronary occlusion
Procedural factors
- A higher final percent diameter stenosis
- Smaller minimal lumen diameter
- Presence of a residual dissection or trans-stenotic pressure gradient