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Angiographic procedures linked to cholesterol emboli syndrome presenting as renal failure in 5 patients.
Case Report (n=5)
Cholesterol emboli syndrome is an important and potentially under-recognized complication of angiographic procedures that can present as renal failure up to four months post-procedure.
Clinicians should consider cholesterol emboli in delayed post-angiography renal failure; case reports leave incidence and causality open.
Cholesterol emboli syndrome is a multisystem disorder that can be precipitated by angiographic procedures. We report 5 cases in which the presentation was renal failure. All patients had undergone angiography, but the temporal relation of the procedure to the clinical presentation was highly variable, the interval ranging from one day to four months. With the increase in diagnostic and therapeutic uses of angiography, the cholesterol emboli syndrome is likely to become more frequent and needs to be recognized.
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Bell et al. (1997) conducted a case report in Cholesterol emboli syndrome (n=5). Angiographic procedures was evaluated on Presentation with renal failure.
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