Citation

Duran L, Kayhan S, Kati C, Akdemir HU, Balci K, Yavuz Y. Indian J. Crit. Care Med. 2014; 18(3): 167-169.

Affiliation

Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ondokuz Mayıs, School of Medicine, Samsun, Turkey.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine, Publisher Medknow Publications)

DOI

10.4103/0972-5229.128707

PMID

24701067

PMCID

PMC3963200

Abstract

Cerebral fat embolism syndrome is a lethal complication of long-bone fractures and clinically manifasted with respiratory distress, altered mental status, and petechial rash. We presented a 20-year-old male admitted with gun-shot wounds to his left leg. Twenty-four hours after the event, he had generalized tonic clonic seizures, decorticate posture and a Glascow Coma Scale of seven with localization of painful stimuli. Subsequent magnetic resonance imaging of the brain showed a star-field pattern defining multiple lesions of restricted diffusion. On a 4-week follow-up, he had returned to normal neurological function. Despite the severity of the neurological condition upon initial presentation, the case cerebral fat embolism illustrates that, cerebral dysfunction associated with cerebral fat embolism illustrates reversible.

Language: en