Systemic Fat Embolism after Renal Homotransplantation and Treatment with Corticosteroids

Abstract

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 "nontraumatic fat embolism," has been recognized. In documenting the first case of pulmonary and systemic fat embolism as a complication of hypercortisonism in man, Hill,1 in 1961, suggested that corticosteroids administered in high dosages were a major factor in the evolution of systemic fat emboli.Another case of fat embolism as a possible complication of hypercortisonism is reported. This potentially fatal entity is particularly important because of the increasing interest in homotransplantation and the . . .