Acute brain fat embolization occurring after total hip arthroplasty in the absence of a patent foramen ovale.
Colonna
David M
DM
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1009, USA. dcolonna@wfubmc.edu
Kilgus
Douglas
D
Brown
William
W
Challa
Venkata
V
Stump
David A
DA
Moody
Dixon M
DM
D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D019644:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004620:Embolism, Fat / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D020766:Intracranial Embolism / Q000209:etiology*