What is it about?
Using an animal model we have described the deleterious effects on the lungs of fat that has entered the blood stream in an abnormal fashion, as sometimes happens after a broken bone. We have also found drugs that protect against the cellular damage.
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Why is it important?
This is important because it points to a more specific treatment of a serious, sometimes fatal, condition that occurs after a variety of trauma where there is no current specific treatment
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This comes after more than 10 years of my work and is a comprehensive review that should lead from laboratory research to the bedside with beneficial results.
Alan Poisner
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This page is a summary of: Fat Embolism: What We Have Learned from Animal Models, March 2019, IntechOpen,
DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.85178.
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