Fat Pulmonary Embolism With Crazy-Paving Pattern Opacities and Pneumothorax: A Rare Complication of Liposuction

Fat embolism syndrome (FES) is a rare multiorgan disease caused by microvascular obstruction by fat globules and free fatty acid-mediated endothelial injury leading to pro-inflammatory cytokine release. We present a rare case of a 54-year-old woman who underwent elective aesthetic liposuction and de...

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Autores principales: Ansari, Yusra, Ansari, Saad Ali, Hussain, Maryam, Kazimuddin, Nisar, Khan, Tahir Muhammad Abdullah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10353921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37476147
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.40607
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author Ansari, Yusra
Ansari, Saad Ali
Hussain, Maryam
Kazimuddin, Nisar
Khan, Tahir Muhammad Abdullah
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description Fat embolism syndrome (FES) is a rare multiorgan disease caused by microvascular obstruction by fat globules and free fatty acid-mediated endothelial injury leading to pro-inflammatory cytokine release. We present a rare case of a 54-year-old woman who underwent elective aesthetic liposuction and developed FES and pneumothorax within 12 hours of the procedure.
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spelling pubmed-103539212023-07-20 Fat Pulmonary Embolism With Crazy-Paving Pattern Opacities and Pneumothorax: A Rare Complication of Liposuction Ansari, Yusra Ansari, Saad Ali Hussain, Maryam Kazimuddin, Nisar Khan, Tahir Muhammad Abdullah Cureus Emergency Medicine Fat embolism syndrome (FES) is a rare multiorgan disease caused by microvascular obstruction by fat globules and free fatty acid-mediated endothelial injury leading to pro-inflammatory cytokine release. We present a rare case of a 54-year-old woman who underwent elective aesthetic liposuction and developed FES and pneumothorax within 12 hours of the procedure. Cureus 2023-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10353921/ /pubmed/37476147 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.40607 Text en Copyright © 2023, Ansari et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Emergency Medicine
Ansari, Yusra
Ansari, Saad Ali
Hussain, Maryam
Kazimuddin, Nisar
Khan, Tahir Muhammad Abdullah
Fat Pulmonary Embolism With Crazy-Paving Pattern Opacities and Pneumothorax: A Rare Complication of Liposuction
title Fat Pulmonary Embolism With Crazy-Paving Pattern Opacities and Pneumothorax: A Rare Complication of Liposuction
title_full Fat Pulmonary Embolism With Crazy-Paving Pattern Opacities and Pneumothorax: A Rare Complication of Liposuction
title_fullStr Fat Pulmonary Embolism With Crazy-Paving Pattern Opacities and Pneumothorax: A Rare Complication of Liposuction
title_full_unstemmed Fat Pulmonary Embolism With Crazy-Paving Pattern Opacities and Pneumothorax: A Rare Complication of Liposuction
title_short Fat Pulmonary Embolism With Crazy-Paving Pattern Opacities and Pneumothorax: A Rare Complication of Liposuction
title_sort fat pulmonary embolism with crazy-paving pattern opacities and pneumothorax: a rare complication of liposuction
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10353921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37476147
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.40607
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