Microvascular Occlusion Side Effects and Warnings

Possible Complications

If you are having microvascular occlusion, your doctor will review a list of possible complications, which may include:

• Weakness
• Numbness or tingling
• Speech disturbances
• Visual changes
• Confusion, memory loss
• Seizures
• Infection
• Adverse reaction to anesthesia (eg, light-headedness, low blood pressure, wheezing)
• Kidney damage
• Blood clots ( stroke )
• Ruptured aneurysm during surgery

Factors that may increase the risk of complications include:

• Smoking
• Obesity
• High blood pressure

Discuss these risks with your doctor before the surgery.

Call Your Doctor

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

• Changes in physical ability—balance, strength, or movement
• Changes to mental status—level of consciousness, memory, thinking, or responsiveness
• Weakness, numbness, tingling
• Signs of infection, including fever and chills
• Redness, swelling, increasing pain, a lot of bleeding, or any discharge from the incision site
• Headache that does not go away
• Changes in vision
• Fainting
• Pain that you cannot control with the medicines you have been given
• Nausea and/or vomiting that you cannot control with the medicines you were given, or that continue for more than two days after leaving the hospital
• Trouble controlling your bladder and/or bowels

Call 911 or go to the emergency room immediately 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.