Adding Insult to Injury: Asymptomatic Fat Embolism Identified on Computed Tomography

Fat embolism (FE) is a classically taught complication of long bone fractures, with the potential to cause high morbidity and mortality; however, it is rarely apparent on emergency department (ED) presentation or imaging. If recognized by the ED clinician, development of symptoms of FE may be avoide...

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Autores principales: Moore, Malia J., Liu, Sophia Y.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2019
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Images in Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6497213/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31061985
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2019.2.41888
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description Fat embolism (FE) is a classically taught complication of long bone fractures, with the potential to cause high morbidity and mortality; however, it is rarely apparent on emergency department (ED) presentation or imaging. If recognized by the ED clinician, development of symptoms of FE may be avoided by early surgical fixation and potentially by corticosteroid administration.
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spelling pubmed-64972132019-05-06 Adding Insult to Injury: Asymptomatic Fat Embolism Identified on Computed Tomography Moore, Malia J. Liu, Sophia Y. Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med Images in Emergency Medicine Fat embolism (FE) is a classically taught complication of long bone fractures, with the potential to cause high morbidity and mortality; however, it is rarely apparent on emergency department (ED) presentation or imaging. If recognized by the ED clinician, development of symptoms of FE may be avoided by early surgical fixation and potentially by corticosteroid administration. University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2019-04-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6497213/ /pubmed/31061985 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2019.2.41888 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Moore et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Adding Insult to Injury: Asymptomatic Fat Embolism Identified on Computed Tomography
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title_full Adding Insult to Injury: Asymptomatic Fat Embolism Identified on Computed Tomography
title_fullStr Adding Insult to Injury: Asymptomatic Fat Embolism Identified on Computed Tomography
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title_short Adding Insult to Injury: Asymptomatic Fat Embolism Identified on Computed Tomography
title_sort adding insult to injury: asymptomatic fat embolism identified on computed tomography
topic Images in Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6497213/
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