Massive cerebral fat embolism leading to brain death: A rare presentation

Fat embolism syndrome (FES) typically consists of a triad of neurological, pulmonary, and cutaneous symptoms. There exist few case reports of FES involving central nervous system (CNS) only without pulmonary involvement. In most of such cases, CNS involvement is partial, and patients recover fully n...

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Autores principales: Aggarwal, Richa, Pal, Sugata, Soni, Kapil Dev, Gamangatti, Shivanand
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4687182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26730124
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.169358
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author Aggarwal, Richa
Pal, Sugata
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description Fat embolism syndrome (FES) typically consists of a triad of neurological, pulmonary, and cutaneous symptoms. There exist few case reports of FES involving central nervous system (CNS) only without pulmonary involvement. In most of such cases, CNS involvement is partial, and patients recover fully neurologically within days. We report a rare and unusual case of massive cerebral fat embolism that led to brain death in trauma patient.
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spelling pubmed-46871822016-01-04 Massive cerebral fat embolism leading to brain death: A rare presentation Aggarwal, Richa Pal, Sugata Soni, Kapil Dev Gamangatti, Shivanand Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report Fat embolism syndrome (FES) typically consists of a triad of neurological, pulmonary, and cutaneous symptoms. There exist few case reports of FES involving central nervous system (CNS) only without pulmonary involvement. In most of such cases, CNS involvement is partial, and patients recover fully neurologically within days. We report a rare and unusual case of massive cerebral fat embolism that led to brain death in trauma patient. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4687182/ /pubmed/26730124 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.169358 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.169358
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