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doi: 10.1378/chest.104.3.962.
Fatal cerebral fat embolism associated with a patent foramen ovale
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- DOI: 10.1378/chest.104.3.962
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Fatal cerebral fat embolism associated with a patent foramen ovale
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1993 Sep.
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.
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