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Cholesterol embolisation: a lethal complication of vascular catheterisation
P A Gaines1, D C Cumberland, A Kennedy
1Department of Radiology, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield.
Lancet (London, England)
|January 23, 1988
Abstract:
Cholesterol embolisation after vascular catheterisation occurred in 5 patients. It tended to be associated with difficult manipulation of the catheter within a severely diseased aorta, and a common feature is leg pain with livedo reticularis despite palpable pulses. Confusion, renal failure, and death ultimately ensue.