FATAL CEREBRAL FAT-EMBOLISM ASSOCIATED WITH A PATENT FORAMEN OVALE

Authors
ETCHELLS EE WONG DT DAVIDSON G HOUSTON PL
Citation
Ee. Etchells et al., FATAL CEREBRAL FAT-EMBOLISM ASSOCIATED WITH A PATENT FORAMEN OVALE, Chest, 104(3), 1993, pp. 962-963
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Respiratory System
Journal title
Chest → ACNP
ISSN journal
00123692
Volume
104
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
962 - 963
Database
ISI
SICI code
0012-3692(1993)104:3<962:FCFAWA>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
A healthy 22-year-old woman developed respiratory failure and brain de ath within 48 h of bilateral tibial fractures. Autopsy showed fat embo lism in the lung and brain, and a large patent foramen ovale that may have contributed to massive cerebral fat embolism.