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- cardiovascular medicine
- interventional cardiology
- ischaemic heart disease
- interventional cardiology
- clinical diagnostic tests
Description
Atheroembolism is a rare but feared complication of arteriography, causing a myriad of signs and symptoms including livedo reticularis, abdominal pain, cyanosis of the toes and renal injury. The main cause is a rupture of atherosclerotic plaque in vessel walls and its embolisation to small diameter vessels affecting more frequently skin and kidneys.1 Here, we present a 69-year-old Hispanic male with medical history of hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus and unstable angina status post drug-eluting stent in the left anterior descending coronary artery placement 10 days prior to …
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Contributors AI was responsible for the patient care, editing of the figures, writing of the manuscript and bibliographic search. OG was responsible for the manuscript editing and details and bibliographic search. AR was repsonsible for the bibliographic search. FL was the senior advisor responsible for patient care, fundoscopy technique and treatment.
Competing interests None declared.
Patient consent Obtained.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.