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cholesterol embolism

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Blocking of a blood vessel by cholesterol-rich atheromatous deposits, generally occurring in the flow from a large artery to small arterial branches. It is also called arterial-arterial embolization or atheroembolism which may be spontaneous or iatrogenic. Patients with spontaneous atheroembolism often have painful, cyanotic digits of acute onset. [ http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D017700 ]

Term info

Label

cholesterol embolism

Synonyms
  • atheroembolism
  • cholesterol crystal embolism
  • cholesterol embolism
  • purple toe syndrome
  • trash foot
  • warfarin blue toe syndrome
database cross reference
definition citation

DOID:1461, MeSH:D017700, CD9CM:445, SNOMEDCT:10690002

exactMatch

http://identifiers.org/mesh/D017700, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0585266, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0149649, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_1461, http://identifiers.org/snomedct/307406004

id

EFO:0005801

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