Sudden death caused by pulmonary fat embolism in a patient with miliary tuberculosis

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Katsuya Chinen (مؤلف), Kashima Ito (مؤلف)
• التنسيق: كتاب
• منشور في: University of São Paulo, 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• الموضوعات: article
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An 84-year-old Japanese woman with myelodysplastic syndrome was admitted with pyrexia and dyspnea, but died suddenly during diagnostic evaluation. The autopsy revealed miliary tuberculosis in addition to myelodysplastic syndrome in the bone marrow. The immediate cause of the patient's sudden de...