Fatal fat embolism complicating cemented total knee replacement: Another manifestation of the metabolic syndrome?

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 387-389

  Saad, Rasheed A ^a   Fahmy, Amr A ^b   Ahmed, Mohamed H ^a  

^a SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Complications; Fat embolism; Metabolic syndrome; Total knee replacement

Indexed keywords

BONE CEMENT; CODYDRAMOL; FUROSEMIDE; ISOPHANE INSULIN; PENICILLAMINE; SIMVASTATIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BREATHING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FAT EMBOLISM; FATALITY; HEART ARREST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEG COMPRESSION; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; RESUSCITATION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BRAIN; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; EMBOLISM, FAT; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY;

EID: 34250631350     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-006-0268-5     Document Type: Article

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