MITRAL STENOSIS: PERIPHERAL EMBOLI CAUSING PARTIAL MONOPLEGIA WITH SYMPTOMS SIMULATING CEREBRAL EMBOLISM

MITRAL STENOSIS COMPLICATED BY RENAL ARTERY EMBOLISM

Six patients with mitral stenosis complicated by renal artery embolism studied prospectively are presented. In five patients there was unilateral and in one patient bilateral renal artery involvement. The diagnosis was confirmed by intravenous pyelography, retrograde pyelography, renal angiography, renal scan or a combination of these. All had atrial fibrillation, proteinuria and elevated ...

Cerebral embolism and mitral stenosis: survival with and without anticoagulants.

Eighty-four patients with mitral stenosis and cerebral embolism have been followed up for 20 years. Half of the series (those treated in the early years) had no anticoagulant treatment and half were given long-term warfarin therapy. Mortality rate and causes of death have been reviewed, and comparison of survival times of treated and untreated groups by life-table analysis bears out the immedia...

Embolism in mitral stenosis.

A man was examined for a railway company because his disability had been ascribed to his employment. He had felt quite well and had been able to perform his work as an electrician until three months before he was examined, when he was suddenly struck down in the course of his routine work by an attack of left-sided weakness. Physical examination proved that this was due to cerebral embolism sec...

A Study on Cerebral Embolism in Mitral Stenosis

mitral stenosis complicated by renal artery embolism

six patients with mitral stenosis complicated by renal artery embolism studied prospectively are presented. in five patients there was unilateral and in one patient bilateral renal artery involvement. the diagnosis was confirmed by intravenous pyelography, retrograde pyelography, renal angiography, renal scan or a combination of these. all had atrial fibrillation, proteinuria and elevated ldh l...