Fat Embolism Syndrome – A Case Report with Literature Review

The fat embolism syndrome (FES) has been considered a diagnostic enigma since it was first described a century ago. It has continued to beach allenging diagnosis to secured espite many technologic advances. The difficulty with which to diagnose FES stems from the fact that it can complicate an array of clinical presentation with a variable severity of illness. Although simple fat embolism may be a pathologic finding with little clinical significance, patients with the fat emboli syndrome have fat emboli in multiple organs, which show extensive damage from this embolization [1]. While most patients with FES fully recover, there is still an estimated5to 15 mortality risk [2]. Care is generally supportive. We report a case of a Caucasian female with a near fatal fat embolism syndrome with multi organ involvement in the setting of a non displaced traumatic pelvic ramus fracture.