Paradoxical Cerebral Fat Embolism in Revision Hip Surgery | Zendy

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Paradoxical Cerebral Fat Embolism in Revision Hip Surgery

Author(s) -

Nicolás S. Piuzzi,

Gerardo Zanotti,

Fernando Comba,

Martín Buttaro,

Francisco Piccaluga

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

case reports in orthopedics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2090-6749

pISSN - 2090-6757

DOI - 10.1155/2014/140757

Subject(s) - medicine , fat embolism syndrome , fat embolism , patent foramen ovale , orthopedic surgery , cerebral embolism , incidence (geometry) , surgery , paradoxical embolism , embolism , hip surgery , arthroplasty , physics , percutaneous , optics

The incidence of clinical fat embolism syndrome (FES) is low (<1%) whilst fat embolism (FE) of marrow fat appears to occur more often (Mellor and Soni (2001)). Paradoxical brain FE may occur in patients undergoing hip orthopedic surgery who have an undocumented patent foramen ovale (PFO). We report a case of an eighty-year-old male patient, who underwent a scheduled revision hip surgery suffering a paradoxical cerebral FE.

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