Case 254: Posttraumatic Migrating Fat Embolus Causing Fat Emboli Syndrome

Genesis of fat emboli.

Cardiac and pulmonary fat embolectomy for suspected fat embolus.

Nelson, C. S. (1974). Thorax, 29, 134-137. Cardiac and pulmonary fat embolectomy for suspected fat embolus. There is no specific treatment of fat embolism, whether the embolism is predominantly cerebral, pulmonary, renal or mesenteric. A 46-year-old man had fractured his right femur for the third time in December 1971. Seventy hours later he suddenly developed the cardiovascular, respiratory, a...

Transcranial doppler detection of fat emboli.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The fat embolism syndrome (FES) is characterized by the simultaneous occurrence of pulmonary and neurological symptoms as well as skin and mucosal petechiae in the setting of long-bone fractures or their surgical repair. Its pathophysiology is poorly understood, and effective treatments are lacking. We present 5 patients with long-bone fractures in whom in vivo microembol...

Fat-Containing Macrophages in Fat Embolism Syndrome

Departments of Internal Medicine and Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei. Received: 15 March 2001. Revised: 19 April 2001. Accepted: 8 May 2001. Reprint requests and correspondence to: Dr. Ping-Hung Kuo, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, 7 Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei, Taiwan. SERIAL ANALYSIS OF FAT-CONTAINING MACROPHAGES IN BRON...

Fat Emboli Syndrome in a Child with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy After Minor Trauma.

BACKGROUND Fat embolism syndrome is the result of systemic manifestations of fat emboli in the microcirculation. Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a condition that increases the risk of fracture resulting in fat emboli. CASE REPORT We describe a patient with Duchenne muscular dystrophy who exhibited cardiopulmonary, neurologic, and ophthalmologic sequelae consistent with fat emboli syndrome afte...