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
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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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author Rostagno, Carlo
Maiani, Silvia
Di Donato, Rosa
Bandini, Giulia
Grassi, Enrico
Fainardi, Enrico
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spelling pubmed-86595422021-12-21 Severe neurologic impairment and respiratory failure after fall and hip fracture in an elderly woman Rostagno, Carlo Maiani, Silvia Di Donato, Rosa Bandini, Giulia Grassi, Enrico Fainardi, Enrico Clin Case Rep Case Report 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. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-12-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8659542/ /pubmed/34938543 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5145 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://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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Severe neurologic impairment and respiratory failure after fall and hip fracture in an elderly woman
title Severe neurologic impairment and respiratory failure after fall and hip fracture in an elderly woman
title_full Severe neurologic impairment and respiratory failure after fall and hip fracture in an elderly woman
title_fullStr Severe neurologic impairment and respiratory failure after fall and hip fracture in an elderly woman
title_full_unstemmed Severe neurologic impairment and respiratory failure after fall and hip fracture in an elderly woman
title_short Severe neurologic impairment and respiratory failure after fall and hip fracture in an elderly woman
title_sort severe neurologic impairment and respiratory failure after fall and hip fracture in an elderly woman
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8659542/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5145
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