Cerebral fat embolism

Cerebral fat embolism is more common in craniocerebral injury with long bone fractures in the limbs, or fat wounds with large crush injuries. Fat droplets enter the ruptured sinuses and reach the blood circulation, causing fat embolism in many organs in the body, in which emboli pass through the lungs. A branch of the anterior capillary of the trachea or escaped into the systemic circulation through the open oval foramen of the right atrium. Although there is pulmonary filtration, some still enter the cerebral blood vessels from the bloodstream and form cerebral fat embolism.

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