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Clinical significance of retinal emboli during diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac catheterization in patients with coronary artery disease

BACKGROUND: Cardiac catheterization may cause retinal embolization, a risk factor for cerebrovascular emboli and stroke. We describe the incidence of clinically silent and apparent retinal emboli following diagnostic and interventional coronary catheterization and associated risk factors. METHODS: T...

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Autores principales: Kojuri, Javad, Mehdizadeh, Morteza, Rostami, Hamed, Shahidian, Danial
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3032753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21255443
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2261-11-5