Treatment of Cholesterol Embolism With Corticosteroids and Alprostadil

Cholesterol embolism is a rare but serious disease that can lead to chronic renal failure or death. Despite the recent increase in the incidence of this disease, there is no consensus on the optimal treatment modality. Supportive care is usually the mainstay of treatment. We report a case of cholest...

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Autor principal: Jung, Seung Mook
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Geriatrics Society 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7387603/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32743283
http://dx.doi.org/10.4235/agmr.18.0045
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description Cholesterol embolism is a rare but serious disease that can lead to chronic renal failure or death. Despite the recent increase in the incidence of this disease, there is no consensus on the optimal treatment modality. Supportive care is usually the mainstay of treatment. We report a case of cholesterol embolism after renal artery stenting that was successfully treated with corticosteroids and alprostadil.
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spelling pubmed-73876032020-07-30 Treatment of Cholesterol Embolism With Corticosteroids and Alprostadil Jung, Seung Mook Ann Geriatr Med Res Case Report Cholesterol embolism is a rare but serious disease that can lead to chronic renal failure or death. Despite the recent increase in the incidence of this disease, there is no consensus on the optimal treatment modality. Supportive care is usually the mainstay of treatment. We report a case of cholesterol embolism after renal artery stenting that was successfully treated with corticosteroids and alprostadil. Korean Geriatrics Society 2019-03 2019-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7387603/ /pubmed/32743283 http://dx.doi.org/10.4235/agmr.18.0045 Text en Copyright © 2019 by The Korean Geriatric Society This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Treatment of Cholesterol Embolism With Corticosteroids and Alprostadil
title Treatment of Cholesterol Embolism With Corticosteroids and Alprostadil
title_full Treatment of Cholesterol Embolism With Corticosteroids and Alprostadil
title_fullStr Treatment of Cholesterol Embolism With Corticosteroids and Alprostadil
title_full_unstemmed Treatment of Cholesterol Embolism With Corticosteroids and Alprostadil
title_short Treatment of Cholesterol Embolism With Corticosteroids and Alprostadil
title_sort treatment of cholesterol embolism with corticosteroids and alprostadil
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7387603/
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