Fatal cerebral fat embolism associated with a patent foramen ovale.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
A healthy 22-year-old woman developed respiratory failure and brain death within 48 h of bilateral tibial fractures. Autopsy showed fat embolism in the lung and brain, and a large patent foramen ovale that may have contributed to massive cerebral fat embolism.
Medical subject headings
- Embolism, Fat
- Heart Septal Defects, Atrial
- Intracranial Embolism and Thrombosis