Neurologic recovery in systemic nontraumatic fat embolism syndrome in an elderly patient with hemoglobin SC disease: A case report

Cerebral fat embolism syndrome is an under‐recognized yet well‐known complication of bone marrow necrosis occurring in patients with sickle cell disease. We highlight a case manifested by multisystem organ failure in an elderly patient who attained neurologic recovery with prompt initiation of hemat...

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Autores principales: Ositelu, Ayotunde, Urrutia‐Argueta, Samuel, Kapoor, Rajat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7495744/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32983503
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3023
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description Cerebral fat embolism syndrome is an under‐recognized yet well‐known complication of bone marrow necrosis occurring in patients with sickle cell disease. We highlight a case manifested by multisystem organ failure in an elderly patient who attained neurologic recovery with prompt initiation of hematology consultation, RBC exchange, and supportive measures.
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spelling pubmed-74957442020-09-24 Neurologic recovery in systemic nontraumatic fat embolism syndrome in an elderly patient with hemoglobin SC disease: A case report Ositelu, Ayotunde Urrutia‐Argueta, Samuel Kapoor, Rajat Clin Case Rep Case Reports Cerebral fat embolism syndrome is an under‐recognized yet well‐known complication of bone marrow necrosis occurring in patients with sickle cell disease. We highlight a case manifested by multisystem organ failure in an elderly patient who attained neurologic recovery with prompt initiation of hematology consultation, RBC exchange, and supportive measures. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7495744/ /pubmed/32983503 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3023 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Neurologic recovery in systemic nontraumatic fat embolism syndrome in an elderly patient with hemoglobin SC disease: A case report
title Neurologic recovery in systemic nontraumatic fat embolism syndrome in an elderly patient with hemoglobin SC disease: A case report
title_full Neurologic recovery in systemic nontraumatic fat embolism syndrome in an elderly patient with hemoglobin SC disease: A case report
title_fullStr Neurologic recovery in systemic nontraumatic fat embolism syndrome in an elderly patient with hemoglobin SC disease: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Neurologic recovery in systemic nontraumatic fat embolism syndrome in an elderly patient with hemoglobin SC disease: A case report
title_short Neurologic recovery in systemic nontraumatic fat embolism syndrome in an elderly patient with hemoglobin SC disease: A case report
title_sort neurologic recovery in systemic nontraumatic fat embolism syndrome in an elderly patient with hemoglobin sc disease: a case report
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7495744/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32983503
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3023
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