Brain death due to fat embolism — could moderate hypercapnia and prone position be blamed for the tonsillar herniation?

Fat embolism to the systemic circulation in polytrauma patients is very common. The fat embolism syndrome (FES), however, is a rare condition. We describe a case of traumatic femur fracture with FES that was presented as acute tonsillar herniation (coning) and brain death postoperatively. We believe...

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Autores principales: Kawati, Rafael, Larsson, Anders
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Informa Healthcare 2013
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4190893/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23977867
http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/03009734.2013.818600
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description Fat embolism to the systemic circulation in polytrauma patients is very common. The fat embolism syndrome (FES), however, is a rare condition. We describe a case of traumatic femur fracture with FES that was presented as acute tonsillar herniation (coning) and brain death postoperatively. We believe that in this case the prone position and moderate hypercapnia contributed to the acute coning.
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spelling pubmed-41908932014-10-24 Brain death due to fat embolism — could moderate hypercapnia and prone position be blamed for the tonsillar herniation? Kawati, Rafael Larsson, Anders Ups J Med Sci Case Reports Fat embolism to the systemic circulation in polytrauma patients is very common. The fat embolism syndrome (FES), however, is a rare condition. We describe a case of traumatic femur fracture with FES that was presented as acute tonsillar herniation (coning) and brain death postoperatively. We believe that in this case the prone position and moderate hypercapnia contributed to the acute coning. Informa Healthcare 2013-11 2013-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4190893/ /pubmed/23977867 http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/03009734.2013.818600 Text en © Informa Healthcare http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited.
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Brain death due to fat embolism — could moderate hypercapnia and prone position be blamed for the tonsillar herniation?
title Brain death due to fat embolism — could moderate hypercapnia and prone position be blamed for the tonsillar herniation?
title_full Brain death due to fat embolism — could moderate hypercapnia and prone position be blamed for the tonsillar herniation?
title_fullStr Brain death due to fat embolism — could moderate hypercapnia and prone position be blamed for the tonsillar herniation?
title_full_unstemmed Brain death due to fat embolism — could moderate hypercapnia and prone position be blamed for the tonsillar herniation?
title_short Brain death due to fat embolism — could moderate hypercapnia and prone position be blamed for the tonsillar herniation?
title_sort brain death due to fat embolism — could moderate hypercapnia and prone position be blamed for the tonsillar herniation?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4190893/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23977867
http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/03009734.2013.818600
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