Why the study?
Fat embolism syndrome is clinically underdiagnosed due to a lack of specific laboratory tests and physical examination findings.
Bedside TTE is valuable for rapidly identifying pulmonary fat embolism in patients presenting with dyspnea after plastic surgery involving autologous fat grafting.
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Bedside TTE may aid FES diagnosis after fat grafting; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before clinical adoption.
Lü et al. (2025) studied this question.
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