Splenic infarction: A complication of cardiac catheterization
1992
Patients with extensive atherosclerosis are at increased risk of developing embolic complications during cardiac catheterization. We describe a 51-year-old man with unstable angina and bilateral leg claudication who developed fever and right upper abdominal pain shortly after cardiac catheterization. Liver-spleen scintigraphy demonstrated a wedge-shaped filling defect compatible with splenic infarction, and serial scans performed over a period of five months showed resolution of this finding. Splenic infarction tends to be under-diagnosed, and physicians should be aware of this potentially serious complication of cardiac catheterization.
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