These interventions gave rise to cholesterol emboli, which led to persistent, severely painful ischemic disturbances in both feet. A skin biopsy revealed the emboli, with characteristic whetstone ...

It is considered good surgical practice to cleanse the aorta and the vascular prosthesis of debris in aorto-iliac reconstruction by a "downward flush" through the unanastomosed end of the ...

High cholesterol levels affect millions of people across the world, some of whom do not even know they have it. But when you ...

The NHS describes cholesterol emboli as follows: “In people with severe atherosclerosis (narrowed arteries caused by a build-up of cholesterol), small pieces of cholesterol can sometimes break ...

cholesterol embolism, splenic granuloma, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, rib exostosis, pancreatitis, Gaucher's disease, Wilson's disease, pheochromocytoma, afibrinogenemia and ruptured ectopic ...