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Diagnostic cardiac catheterization can result in retinal embolism caused by cholesterol crystals, representing a rare but severe complication without systemic adverse effects.
This case report provides the first evidence of retinal embolism caused by a cholesterol crystal as a rare but severe complication of diagnostic cardiac catheterization.
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Alerts clinicians to rare retinal embolism risk post-catheterization; case report leaves open true incidence and prevention strategies.
Retinal embolism is a highly infrequent complication of cardiac catheterization of thrombotic, lipidic, and calcific etiology. We provide the first reported clinical case of retinal embolism caused by cholesterol crystal without systemic adverse effects as a severe complication of diagnostic cardiac catheterization. Cathet. Cardiovasc. Intervent. 51:323-325, 2000.
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Vicente Barriales (2000) studied this question. Diagnostic cardiac catheterization can result in retinal embolism caused by cholesterol crystals, representing a rare but severe complication without systemic adverse effects.
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