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Syncope as a premonitory sign of fatal pulmonary embolism. Two case reports
G Edelson1, N D Reis, E Hettinger
1Department of Orthopedics, Poriya Government Hospital, Tiberias, Israel.
Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica
|February 1, 1988
Abstract:
Two patients suddenly died of massive pulmonary embolism 3 weeks after hip surgery. In retrospect, several episodes of syncope starting during the first postoperative week were recognized as premonitory signs of the fatal outcome.