Risk factors and therapeutic results of early local recurrence after transcatheter arterial chemoembolization

Table 3 Complications from the chemoembolization procedure n (%)

Complication	Frequency per 523 procedures
Postembolization syndrome	434 (83.0)
Fever	305 (58.3)
Abdominal pain	326 (62.3)
Nausea/vomiting	135 (25.8)/26 (5.0)
Acute hepatic failure	110 (21.0)
Reversible/Irreversible	91 (17.4)/19 (3.6)
Biloma	6 (1.1)
Liver abscess	5 (1.0)
Septicemia	6 (1.1)
Acalculous cholecystitis	2 (0.4)
Diarrhea, simple/infectious (including PMC)	22 (4.2)/3 (0.6)
Headache	83 (15.9)
Dizziness	15 (2.9)
Itching sense	24 (4.6)
Acute urticaria, drug eruption, skin rash	6 (1.1)
Local bleeding (including rebleeding, hematoma)	5 (1.0)
Upper GI bleeding, total	11 (2.1)
Esophageal varix bleeding	4 (0.8)
Gastric varix bleeding	2 (0.4)
Ulcer bleeding	4 (0.8)
Mallory-Weiss tear	1 (0.2)
Others
Splenic infarction	1 (0.2)
Stress-induced cardiomyopathy	1 (0.2)
Paralytic ileus	1 (0.2)
Skin necrosis	1 (0.2)

PMC: Pseudomembranous colitis; GI: Gastrointestinal.