phuluong2k
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A 77 year old female falls and incurs a right femoral intertrochanteric fracture. She undergoes surgery with placement of a right hip prosthesis. She is recovering in a nursing home two weeks later, but is still not ambulating. She suddenly becomes diaphoretic, with dyspnea, after using a bedpan. Which of the following pathologic findings at autopsy is most likely to be present:
A) Pulmonary thromboembolism
B) Widespread metastases
C) Fat embolism
D) Lobar pneumonia
E) Dilated cardiomyopathy
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| mjl1717
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answer-a?
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| att
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C) Fat embolism
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| phuluong2k
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i did C, but right one is A, any one can elucidate it ?
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| ssrpk
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so did i select c.......but answer shud be a....as fat emboism is much more devastating...and characteristic signs include not only dyspnea.....but petechial rash,mental irritability,coma....and in abt 10% cases death!
fat embolism does'nt lead to such rapid death.!
ans-a : prolonged immobilization.......sudden activity....embolization ..... acute cor pulmonale!
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| ssrpk
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fat embolism does not even take this long to manifest.....typically withit 2 or 3 days
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