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Cholesterol crystal embolism typically affects white males aged >60 years with a history of arterial disease, presenting with a classic triad of precipitating event, renal failure, and embolization.
Cholesterol crystal embolism is a challenging diagnosis requiring clinical alertness to the classic triad of a precipitating event, renal failure, and peripheral embolization, which can be confirmed by biopsy.
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Clinicians should suspect cholesterol crystal embolism in older white males with the triad; this review leaves open the need for prospective validation.
Venturelli et al. (2006) conducted a review in Cholesterol crystal embolism (atheroembolic disease). Cholesterol crystal embolism typically affects white males aged >60 years with a history of arterial disease, presenting with a classic triad of precipitating event, renal failure, and embolization.
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