Difference between revisions of "Vascular disease"
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==Cholesterol embolism== | ==Cholesterol embolism== | ||
*Abbreviated ''CE''. | |||
===General=== | ===General=== | ||
*Strong association with [[atherosclerosis]] - found in ~3% of individuals in an [[autopsy]] series of 267 older individuals (mean age ~65 years).<ref name=pmid19970827>{{cite journal | author=Flory CM | title=Arterial occlusions produced by emboli from eroded aortic atheromatous plaques | journal=Am J Pathol | year= 1945 | volume=21 | pages=549–565 | pmid=19970827 | issue=3 | pmc=1934118}}</ref> | *Strong association with [[atherosclerosis]] - found in ~3% of individuals in an [[autopsy]] series of 267 older individuals (mean age ~65 years).<ref name=pmid19970827>{{cite journal | author=Flory CM | title=Arterial occlusions produced by emboli from eroded aortic atheromatous plaques | journal=Am J Pathol | year= 1945 | volume=21 | pages=549–565 | pmid=19970827 | issue=3 | pmc=1934118}}</ref> | ||
*Significant CEs are often iatrogenic. | |||
**Known complication of coronary catherization (incidence ~ 1%).<ref name=pmid12875753>{{cite journal |author=Fukumoto Y, Tsutsui H, Tsuchihashi M, Masumoto A, Takeshita A |title=The incidence and risk factors of cholesterol embolization syndrome, a complication of cardiac catheterization: a prospective study |journal=J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=211–6 |year=2003 |month=July |pmid=12875753 |doi=10.1016/S0735-1097(03)00579-5 | url=http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0735109703005795}}</ref> | |||
**May complicate any vascular surgery, CABG. | |||
===Microscopic=== | ===Microscopic=== | ||