Multiple peripheral emboli after cardiac trauma.

Multiple peripheral emboli after cardiac trauma.

Cardiac Perforation and Multiple Emboli After Percutaneous Vertebroplasty.

Percutaneous vertebroplasty is a minimally invasive technique for treating vertebral compression fractures and tumors. Although percutaneous vertebroplasty is considered a relatively safe and technically simple procedure, it is also associated with life-threatening complications as a result of cement leakage, including cardiac perforation and pulmonary embolism. A 63-year-old woman underwent pe...

Acute retinal arteriolar emboli after cardiac catheterization.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE There are concerns that cardiac catheterization may cause retinal embolization, a risk marker for cerebrovascular emboli and stroke. We describe the incidence of acute retinal embolism after cardiac catheterization. METHODS One hundred unselected patients attending a tertiary referral center for diagnostic cardiac catheterization were recruited. Digital retinal photogra...

The problem of fat emboli after orthopedic trauma

Introduction Trauma or surgery to long bones can disturb the intramedullary canal and produce pressure and mechanical changes which result in the extravasation of fat and marrow into the venous circulation [1]. This material can enter the pulmonary microcirculation and produce pulmonary parenchymal damage by a combination of direct tissue hypoxia due to mechanical pulmonary arteriole obstructio...

The Management of Peripheral Arterial Emboli.

ONE of the main difficulties in assessing the results of any surgical procedure is the provision of a directly comparable series of patients on whom it has not been employed. Nowhere is this more evident than in trying to determine the value of embolectomy in the management of peripheral arterial emboli. The problem of comparing the results of conservative and operative management is considerab...