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Pulmonary fat embolism presenting as chronic respiratory failure
D Galdermans1, D Coolen, I Neetens
1Dept. of Internal Medicine, Middelheim Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium.
The European Respiratory Journal
|February 1, 1989
Abstract:
A patient is presented with progressive respiratory failure, caused by pulmonary fat embolism as proved by an open lung biopsy. Four and a half yrs earlier, she underwent a right hip operation. We surmise that a loosening hip prosthesis caused the marrow embolisation.