The literature article entitled, "fatal cerebral emboli in the absence of a cardiac arterial-venous shunt" written by jennifer tucker ammon, md, cyna khalily, md, and d.
Kevin lester, md published by the journal of arthroplasty vol.
22 no.
3 2007 accepted by publisher 20 march 2006 was reviewed.
The article's purpose was to report on one case report of a (b)(6) year old mentally delayed female who underwent a cementless bipolar hemiarthroplasty for treatment of a displaced subcapital femoral neck fracture.
A depuy femoral stem and femoral head was utilized.
Intraoperatively she remained hemodynamically stable and well perfused with oxygen levels throughout operation.
Six hours post op the patient had not awakened from surgery.
Mri imaging revealed 22 fat emboli.
She did not regain previous consciousness or function and 10 months later she died because of severe generalized debilitation.
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