Severe neurologic impairment and respiratory failure after fall and hip fracture in an elderly woman

Fat embolism syndrome is a rare complication of long bone fractures and orthopedic surgery. We report a case of a 90‐year‐old woman who developed severe neurologic impairment and respiratory failure few hours after an accidental fall complicated by fracture of the left femur neck and left humerus....

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Autores principales: Rostagno, Carlo, Maiani, Silvia, Di Donato, Rosa, Bandini, Giulia, Grassi, Enrico, Fainardi, Enrico
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8659542/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34938543
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5145

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8659542/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34938543
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5145

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