SHA 060. The impact of different coronary risk factors on the degree of coronary calcification in the Saudi population

摘要

Femoral arterial sheath thrombosis and distalembolization is a well-recognized complication of cardiac catheter-ization and may result in serious comorbidities like acute leg ische-mia. Heparinized saline flushes are used during diagnosticcoronary angiography to prevent thrombus formation within thelumen of the sheath. However, the use of prophylactic intravenousheparin following the femoral arterial sheath insertion is contro-versial. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of2000 units’ heparin intravenous bolus versus saline placebo onthrombus formation within arterial sheath during the diagnosticcoronary angiography.