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Richa Aggarwal¹, Sugata Pal¹, Kapil Dev Soni¹

¹Department of Critical Care Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine : Peer-Reviewed, Official Publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine

|January 6, 2016

Abstract:

Fat embolism syndrome (FES) typically consists of a triad of neurological, pulmonary, and cutaneous symptoms. There exist few case reports of FES involving central nervous system (CNS) only without pulmonary involvement. In most of such cases, CNS involvement is partial, and patients recover fully neurologically within days. We report a rare and unusual case of massive cerebral fat embolism that led to brain death in trauma patient.

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Brain death fat embolism trauma

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