Paradoxical Cerebral Fat Embolism in Revision Hip Surgery
Corresponding Author
Nicolás S. Piuzzi
Hip Surgery Unit “Sir John Charnley”, Institute of Orthopaedics “Carlos E. Ottolenghi”, Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires, Peron 4190, 1181 Buenos Aires, Argentina hospitalitaliano.org.ar
Search for more papers by this authorGerardo Zanotti
Hip Surgery Unit “Sir John Charnley”, Institute of Orthopaedics “Carlos E. Ottolenghi”, Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires, Peron 4190, 1181 Buenos Aires, Argentina hospitalitaliano.org.ar
Search for more papers by this authorFernando M. Comba
Hip Surgery Unit “Sir John Charnley”, Institute of Orthopaedics “Carlos E. Ottolenghi”, Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires, Peron 4190, 1181 Buenos Aires, Argentina hospitalitaliano.org.ar
Search for more papers by this authorMartin A. Buttaro
Hip Surgery Unit “Sir John Charnley”, Institute of Orthopaedics “Carlos E. Ottolenghi”, Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires, Peron 4190, 1181 Buenos Aires, Argentina hospitalitaliano.org.ar
Search for more papers by this authorFrancisco Piccaluga
Hip Surgery Unit “Sir John Charnley”, Institute of Orthopaedics “Carlos E. Ottolenghi”, Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires, Peron 4190, 1181 Buenos Aires, Argentina hospitalitaliano.org.ar
Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Nicolás S. Piuzzi
Hip Surgery Unit “Sir John Charnley”, Institute of Orthopaedics “Carlos E. Ottolenghi”, Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires, Peron 4190, 1181 Buenos Aires, Argentina hospitalitaliano.org.ar
Search for more papers by this authorGerardo Zanotti
Hip Surgery Unit “Sir John Charnley”, Institute of Orthopaedics “Carlos E. Ottolenghi”, Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires, Peron 4190, 1181 Buenos Aires, Argentina hospitalitaliano.org.ar
Search for more papers by this authorFernando M. Comba
Hip Surgery Unit “Sir John Charnley”, Institute of Orthopaedics “Carlos E. Ottolenghi”, Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires, Peron 4190, 1181 Buenos Aires, Argentina hospitalitaliano.org.ar
Search for more papers by this authorMartin A. Buttaro
Hip Surgery Unit “Sir John Charnley”, Institute of Orthopaedics “Carlos E. Ottolenghi”, Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires, Peron 4190, 1181 Buenos Aires, Argentina hospitalitaliano.org.ar
Search for more papers by this authorFrancisco Piccaluga
Hip Surgery Unit “Sir John Charnley”, Institute of Orthopaedics “Carlos E. Ottolenghi”, Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires, Peron 4190, 1181 Buenos Aires, Argentina hospitalitaliano.org.ar
Search for more papers by this authorAbstract
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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