Obesity and type 2 diabetes in adolescence can interfere with bone development, potentially increasing the risk of fractures ...

An embolism is anything that blocks a blood vessel and makes it difficult or impossible for your blood to flow normally. One type of embolism is a “fat” embolism. These happen when fat ...

Fat Embolism Syndrome Fat embolism develops in nearly all patients with bone fractures or during orthopedic procedures. [1, 2] Rarely, fat embolism may occur in other nontrauma-related pathologic ...

Aspirin is not typically used to treat fat embolism. Fat embolism syndrome is a serious condition that occurs when fat droplets enter the bloodstream and travel to the lungs, brain, or other ...

MANY clinical and experimental studies have been performed to study the etiology, diagnosis and treatment of traumatic fat embolism. Recently, a less well understood counterpart, termed "nontraumat ...

Abstract WHEN blood is aspirated from the knee joint after a knee injury, it is often mixed with visible droplets of liquid fat. 1 Fat in the blood can also be recognized on x-ray examination by ...

In this video from the Orthopaedic Trauma Association Annual Meeting, Thompson Zhuang, MD, MBA, discusses age-related risk factors for pulmonary embolism in patients with lower extremity fractures ...

Over the summer, we took a deep dive into “Ozempic Face,” a phenomenon that occurs when quick, significant weight loss leads to a hollowness mainly found along the eyes, the cheek area and the ...

Recently published case report discussed a case report of a 56-year-old female patient who developed Fat Embolism Syndrome (FES) and multiple small pulmonary emboli following open reduction internal ...

Measuring the total mass of fat in the arms could potentially predict which women and men over 50 are at risk of spinal fracture, according to research presented at the 26th European Congress of ...

We suggest that several factors, including the lack of standardized diagnostic criteria 14, 17, have played a key role in the underdiagnosis of fat embolism, especially in non-orthopedics-related ...