Table 5 Risk of endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) complications reported in previous studies

Deckers (1992)

546

6

1.2^a

4.8^a

[24]

Hiramitasu (1998)

19 964

0.7

[25]

Felker (1999)

323

0.32

[26]

Holzmann (2008)

3048

1.25^a

0.1^a

1.15^a

[12]

Yilmaz (2010)

622 (LVEMB)

3.5 (LVEMB)

0.6 (LVEMB)

2.9 (LVEMB)

[13]

490 (RVEMB)

5.9 (RV EMB)

0.8 (RVEMB)

5.1 (RVEMB)

Huang (2010)

439

1.61

0.0

1.61

[27]

Saraiva (2011)

2217

0.71

-

-

[14]

Fiorelli (2012)

5347

6.2

0.3

5.9

[28]

Bennet (2013)

851

1.9

0.9

1.0

[16]

Jang (2013)

228

9.2

1.3

7.9

[15]

Chimenti (2013)

3549 (LVEMB)

2.33 (LVEMB)

0.33 (LVEMB)

2.0 (LVEMB)

[22]

3068 (RVEMB)

1.8 (RVEMB)

0.45 (RVEMB)

1.35 (LVEMB)

Strecker (2013)

1896

1.0

[21]

Isogai (2015)

9508

0.98

[19]

Schulz (2015))~

37

2.7

0

2.7

[1]

Schäufele (2015)~

41

0

0

0

[23]