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Fatal cerebral fat embolism associated with a patent foramen ovale
E E Etchells1, D T Wong, G Davidson
1Division of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Toronto Hospital, Canada.
Chest
|September 1, 1993
Abstract:
A healthy 22-year-old woman developed respiratory failure and brain death within 48 h of bilateral tibial fractures. Autopsy showed fat embolism in the lung and brain, and a large patent foramen ovale that may have contributed to massive cerebral fat embolism.