Table 2. Patients’ outcomes categorized based on clinical consequence.
* Percentages within each row. ** Percentages within the total (547). *** Chi-square test was used.
| Clinical consequence | Patient outcome* | Total** | P*** | |||
| No consequence | Recovered | Death | Unknown | |||
| Perforation | 3 (1.7%) | 110 (60.8%) | 60 (33.1%) | 8 (4.4%) | 181 (33.0%) | Less than 0.0001 |
| Dissection | 5 (7.9%) | 47 (74.6%) | 7 (11.1%) | 4 (6.3%) | 63 (11.5%) | Less than 0.0001 |
| Hematoma | 1 (16.7%) | 4 (66.7%) | 1 (16.7%) | 0 (0%) | 6 (1%) | 0.646 |
| Foreign body/device embedded in tissue | 42 (35.9%) | 56 (47.9%) | 5 (4.3%) | 14 (12.0%) | 117 (21.3%) | 0.001 |
| Thrombosis/myocardial infarct | 0 (0%) | 5 (38.5%) | 4 (30.8%) | 4 (30.8%) | 13 (2.3%) | 0.005 |
| No reflow | 1 (%) | 15 (%) | 5 (%) | 7 (%) | 28 (5%) | 0.001 |
| Arrhythmias (including bradycardia) | 1 (7.1%) | 7 (50.0%) | 6 (42.9%) | 0 (0%) | 14 (2.5%) | 0.014 |