Retinal artery embolization complicating Libman-Sacks endocarditis in a systemic lupus erythematosus patient
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Retinal artery embolization complicating Libman-Sacks endocarditis in a systemic lupus erythematosus patient.
Libman-Sacks endocarditis (LSE) is the most characteristic cardiac manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). It is usually clinically silent but heart failure due to valvular dysfunction, secondary infective endocarditis and embolic phenomena can complicate valvular abnormalities. We present a patient with SLE and blindness due to right central retinal artery occlusion. Echocardiogra...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia (English Edition)
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2174-2049
DOI: 10.1016/j.repce.2013.05.003