Endovascular Embolization Side Effects and Warnings

Possible Complications

If you are planning to have this procedure, your doctor will review a list of possible complications, such as:

• Bleeding

• Weakness

• Numbness or tingling

• Speech disturbances

• Visual changes

• Confusion, memory loss

• Seizures

• Infection

• Reaction to the anesthesia or contrast solution

• Blood clots

• Ruptured aneurysm during surgery

Factors that may increase the risk of complications include:

• Smoking

• Obesity

• High blood pressure

Talk to your doctor about these risk factors.

Call Your Doctor

After you leave the hospital, call your doctor if any of the following occurs:

• Any changes in physical ability (eg, balance, strength, or movement)

• Any changes to mental status (eg, consciousness, memory, thinking)

• Weakness, numbness, tingling

• Signs of infection including fever and chills

• Redness, swelling, increasing pain, bleeding, or discharge from the incision site

• Headache

• Changes in vision

• Fainting

• Pain that you cannot control with the medicines you have been given

• Nausea, vomiting

• Trouble controlling your bladder and/or bowels

Call 911 or go to the emergency room right away if any of the following occurs:

• Seizure

• Shortness of breath or chest pain

• Loss of consciousness

If you think you have an emergency, CALL 911.