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Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings
The peer-reviewed journal of Baylor Scott & White Health
Volume 35, 2022 - Issue 5
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Case Studies

Fatal bone marrow embolism

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Pages 714-716 | Received 16 Apr 2022, Accepted 19 May 2022, Published online: 07 Jun 2022
 

Abstract

A 45-year-old man presented to the emergency department with fever, hypotension, respiratory distress, and altered mental status. Imaging revealed a femoral fracture and arterial blood gas showed severe metabolic acidosis. He died soon after admission. An autopsy revealed bone marrow particles in the lumen of numerous pulmonary arteries as well as fat emboli with admixed scattered hematopoietic cells in small vessels of the heart and liver. A clinical diagnosis of bone marrow embolism may be challenging due to its obscure presentation with possible multiorgan involvement. A definitive diagnosis is usually established postmortem with histopathological analysis of tissue collected during autopsy.

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