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Atheroembolic disease
Atheroembolic disease is medical conditions caused by the embolizationof ruptured atheromatous plaquesinto distal blood vessels.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 1 Symptoms
- 2 Risk factors
- 3 Complications
- 4 Diagnosis
- 5 Treatment
- 6 External links
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Symptoms
- Pain, abdominal/flank, legs, thighs or foot - continuous
- Claudication
- Vascular insufficiency, purple toes
- Hypertension- high blood pressure
- Skin ulcers
- Hematuria- blood in the urine
Risk factors
- Smoking
- Hypercholesterolemia
- Hypertension
- Diabetes mellitus
- Family history
- Previous atheroembolism
Complications
- chronic renal failure
- acute renal failure
- stroke
- myocardial infarction(heart attack)
- ischemic limbrequiring amputation
- bowel ischemic
Diagnosis
- Urinalysis
- Blood work - CBC, creatinine, cholesterol
- Pyelography
- Renal angiogram
Treatment
Atheroembolic disease is difficult to treatment. The primary treatment is prevention, by controling the risk factors (i.e. smoking, cholesterol, diabetes, hypertension).
Prognosis of the condition is generally poor as embolization is usually chronic.
External links
- Atheroembolic renal disease- U of Maryland Medical Center
- Atheroembolic renal disease- medlineplus.org
Categories: Nephrology| Disease stubs
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It uses material from the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheroembolic+disease Wikipedia article Atheroembolic disease.
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