ABSTRACT
The cholesterol embolism syndrome (CES) is an unusual disease that carries a high mortality rate. Finding intraprostatic cholesterol crystal embolization as the result of transrectal prostate biopsy in a patient with several risk factors for atherosclerosis, should alert the urologist to the possibility of CES existence.
Subject(s)
Embolism, Cholesterol/complications , Prostatic Diseases/etiology , Biopsy, Needle , Embolism, Cholesterol/pathology , Embolism, Cholesterol/therapy , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Prostate/diagnostic imaging , Prostate/pathology , Prostatic Diseases/pathology , Prostatic Diseases/therapy , UltrasonographyABSTRACT
La Enfermedad por émbolos de colesterol (EEC) es una patología poco conocida pero con una alta mortalidad asociada. La presencia de embolias de cristales de colesterol a nivel intraprostático como hallazgo poco común en las biopsias prostáticas transrectales en un enfermo con factores de riesgo tromboembólico, debe alertarnos sobre la posible existencia de la EEC
The cholesterol embolism syndrome (CES) is an unusual disease that carries a high mortality rate. Finding intraprostatic cholesterol crystal embolization as the result of transrectal prostate biopsy in a patient with several risk factors for atherosclerosis, should alert the urologist to the possibility of CES existence
