Elderly woman with arm swelling

Abstract

A 72-year-old female with a history of hypertension and a recent outpatient catheterization procedure due to angina where a stent was implanted in the left anterior descending artery using the right arm presented to the emergency department with complaints of pain and swelling in her right arm 6 days after the procedure (Figure 1A). Upon physical examination, the patient was found to have diffuse swelling in the antecubital fossa of his right arm.