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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Semin Arthritis Rheum. 2011 Nov 4;41(5):689–697. doi: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2011.09.003

Table 2.

90-day cardiac and thromboembolic complications after primary shoulder arthroplasty

Number of events (%)
Cardiac Events 92 patients with 109 events
Myocardial infarction (MI) 12 (11%)
Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) 10 (9%)
Arrhythmia 57(53%)
MI and CHF 1 (1%)
MI and Arrhythmia 4 (4%)
Arrhythmia and CHF 4 (4%)
MI, CHF and arrhythmia 4 (4%)
Thromboembolic events 42 patients with 47 events
Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT) 13 (28%)
Pulmonary embolism 24 (51%)
Pulmonary embolism and DVT 5 (11%)