CHOLESTEROL EMBOLI SYNDROME - UNCOMMON OR UNRECOGNIZED

Cholesterol emboli syndrome is a multisystem disorder that can be prec ipitated by angiographic procedures. We report 5 cases in which the pr esentation was renal failure. All patients had undergone angiography, but the temporal relation of the procedure to the clinical presentatio n was highly variable, the interval ranging from one day to four month s. With the increase in diagnostic and therapeutic uses of angiography , the cholesterol emboli syndrome is likely to become more frequent an d needs to be recognized.