Catalog

Cutaneous microvascular occlusion due to cardiac emboli

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Link to WHO Definition

Cutaneous microvascular occlusion due to cardiac emboli – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/18757423

Emboli from atrial myxomas (including NAME syndrome/Carney complex) or heart valve vegetations (in infective endocarditis) may result in acral splinter haemorrhages and petechiae, livedo reticularis and focal ischaemic necrosis at acral sites.