Cardiac perforation by pacemaker (PM) lead is a rare but potentially life-threatening complication. The clinical presentation highly variable. Patients may be asymptomatic or present with chest pain, dyspnea tamponade. In this case, we report patient implantation who developed stubborn cough secondary to perforation.

Iatrogenic aortic valve injury during non-aortic cardiac surgery is an infrequent complication. regurgitation (AR) has been reported after mitral repair, septal myomectomy, closure of the ventricular defect, and atrial defect repair. Various causes have for AR surgery. Perforation leaflet a common cause AR. Other are tension retraction due to inadvertent suture placement. A few previous case re...

UNLABELLED Outcome after cardiac surgery varies depending on complication type. We therefore sought to determine the association between complication type, mortality, and length of stay in a large series of patients undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). Multivariate logistic regression was used to test for differences between complication types in mortality and prolonged...

BACKGROUND Hemoptysis is a common complication in all kinds of surgery. However, it is rarely critical because it resolves with or without intervention. CASE PRESENTATION Here the authors present what is believed to be an unprecedented report of a case involving a fatal idiopathic bronchial hemorrhage complication during cardiac surgery. Eighty-five-year-old female with severe aorticvalve ste...

In Europe and North America, cardiac surgery can be done successfully on octogenarians, but differences in patient selection, surgical and bypass techniques prevent us from concluding similarly in Pakistan. This study investigated the short and long-term outcomes of cardiac surgery in octogenarians operated over a 5 years period at The Aga Khan University Hospital, from January 2001 to December...

BACKGROUND Acute renal injury (AKI) is a common renal complication after cardiac surgery. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of perioperative statin therapy (PST) on postoperative renal outcome in patients undergoing cardiac procedures. METHODS We searched for the reports that evaluating the effect of PST on renal outcomes after cardiac surgery between March 1983 and June 2016 ...

Cardiac surgery associated acute kidney injury (CSA-AKI) is a common complication of cardiac resulting from the patient's exposure to complex combination factors in perioperative period. Current diagnostic criteria for AKI may underestimate incidence this due certain specific features patients. The introduction new biomarkers into clinical practice has shown prospective identifying patients ear...

Vascular and bleeding complications are a known risk of cardiac catheterization. In this article, we report a neck hematoma after left-sided transradial cardiac catheterization, which is a known but rarely reported complication of this procedure.

Post-intubation cardiac arrest (PICA) is an uncommon complication of intubation, but numbers have risen to over 1.5 times the usual number since Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Due expert recommendations, high-dose rocuronium has become a commonly used pre-intubation neuromuscular blocking agent.