Cerebral Fat Embolism: A Rare East African Conundrum

Cerebral fat embolism (CFE) is a potentially fatal condition associated with displaced long bone fracture of the lower extremities. CFE, usually seen in young men, has an incidence ranging between 0.9% and 11% in patients with long bone fractures. CFE can present with various neurological symptoms,...

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Autores principales: Mburu, Larry, Du, Katie, Mbugua, Sylvia, Mavuti, Jacqueline, Ali, Sayed K
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9085708/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35547438
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23940
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author Mburu, Larry
Du, Katie
Mbugua, Sylvia
Mavuti, Jacqueline
Ali, Sayed K
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description Cerebral fat embolism (CFE) is a potentially fatal condition associated with displaced long bone fracture of the lower extremities. CFE, usually seen in young men, has an incidence ranging between 0.9% and 11% in patients with long bone fractures. CFE can present with various neurological symptoms, and a diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (DWI) remains the definitive diagnostic study. Early treatment of the fracture is crucial in the management of CFE. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to report a case of CFE in East Africa.
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spelling pubmed-90857082022-05-10 Cerebral Fat Embolism: A Rare East African Conundrum Mburu, Larry Du, Katie Mbugua, Sylvia Mavuti, Jacqueline Ali, Sayed K Cureus Internal Medicine Cerebral fat embolism (CFE) is a potentially fatal condition associated with displaced long bone fracture of the lower extremities. CFE, usually seen in young men, has an incidence ranging between 0.9% and 11% in patients with long bone fractures. CFE can present with various neurological symptoms, and a diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (DWI) remains the definitive diagnostic study. Early treatment of the fracture is crucial in the management of CFE. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to report a case of CFE in East Africa. Cureus 2022-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9085708/ /pubmed/35547438 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23940 Text en Copyright © 2022, Mburu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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