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. 2021 May;42(5):980–985. doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A7009

Table 2:

Number of injections performed by year in the literature and our data with complications, number, and ratea

Year Transforaminal Injections Patients CIRSE Grade 1 CIRSE Grade 2 CIRSE Grade 3 Overall Adverse Event Rate
2018 36 16 2 0 0 5.6%
2019 69 16 1 0 0 1.4%
2020 451 74 31 2 3 6.9%
Total 556 106 34 2 3 7%
Adverse event rate 5.8% 0.3% 0.5%
Institutional experience 42 8 1 0 0 2.4%
a

Data include the total adverse event rate categorized by CIRSE grade as well as by year.