Fatal cerebral emboli in the absence of a cardiac arterial-venous shunt: case report.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Cerebral embolism in patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty has an incidence rate of 0.5%. In those cases where cerebral emboli were confirmed, a venous-to-arterial circulation shunt, most commonly a patent foramen ovale, was identified. We report a case of severe cerebral fat emboli during cementless total hip arthroplasty in the absence of an intracardiac defect.
Medical subject headings
- Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip
- Intracranial Embolism
Anatomy
- hip
- femur