Table 2.

Review of previous reports on vasculitis associated with cholesterol embolism

References	Sex, age	Past history	Endovascular surgery	Involved organ	ANCA	Eosinophillia	Hypocomplementemia	Pathology	Treatment	Outcome
Goldman M et al.1985 [4]	M, 75	COPD, CAD, PAD	carotid angiography	kidney	N/S	N/S	N/S	kidney; necrotizing glomerulonephritis, cholesterol craft	HD	died 6 month later
Peat DS et al. 1996 [5]	M, 73	HT, CAD	-	kidney	+	+	N/S	kidney; cholesterol craft	PSL, CY	died due to HF
Sijpkens Y et al. 1997 [6]	M, 62	N/S	-	skin, muscle, lung, CNS	-	-	+	(autopsy) muscle, kidney, pleura, brain; cholesterol clefts and necrotizing vasculitis	-	died
Kaplan Pavlovcic S et al. 1998 [7]	M, 63	HT, CAD	-	skin, kidney	+	-	-	skin; vasculitis, cholesterol crystal clefts	PSL	HD
								kidney; cholesterol crystal clefts
Kaplan Pavlovcic S et al. 1998 [7]	F, 69	HT, DL,	iv streptokinase for MI	skin, kidney	+	+	-	skin; infarction and haemorrhages kidney; cholesterol crystal clefts	antiplatelet	N/S
									therapy
Ballesteros AL et al. 1999 [8]	M, 69	PAD, CI, PM, DL	aortic-bifemoral graft	skin, kidney	-	-	+	skin; LCV, kidney; necrotizing vasculitis, (autopsy) cholesterol crystal on skin, gastrointestinal tract, liver	PSL, CY	died
Sugimoto T et al. 2006 [9]	M, 75	CAD	coronary artery bypass	skin, kidney	+	+	N/S	skin; cholesterol crystal cleft LCV	PSL	survived
Maejima et al. 2010 [10]	M, 76	CAD	-	skin	+	-	-	skin; LCV, cholesterol crystal cleft	PSL	died
Moriya M et al. 2015 [11]	M, 70	CAD	-	skin, CNS, lung	-	-	+	autopsy; vasculitis of alveolar capillary,	PSL	died
								leptomenigial necrotizing vasculitis
Bajić et al. 2017 [3]	M, 67	HT, psoriasis	-	skin, testis	-	-	-	skin; necrotizing vasculitis, cholesterol crystal cleft	PSL	recovered
Kojima R et al. 2020 [12]	F, 76	HT	-	skin, kidney	-	+	-	skin&kidney; cholesterol clefts	PSL	survived
								kidney; whole-layer vasculitis
Our patient	M, 82	HT, CI	-	skin, muscle	-	+	+	skin; LCV, cholesterol clefts	PSL	died
								muscle; small vessel vasculitis

M Male, F Female, ANCA Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody, COPD Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, CAD Coronary artery disease, PAD Peripheral artery disease, HD Hemodialysis, HT Hypertension, PSL Prednisolone, CY Cyclophosphamide, CNS Central nervous system, DL Dyslipidemia, MI Myocardial infarction, CI Cerebral infarction, PM Pacemaker implantation, LCV Leukocytoclastic vasculitis, N/S Not specified