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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1409-0015</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Medicina Legal de Costa Rica]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Med. leg. Costa Rica]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1409-0015</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Asociación Costarricense de Medicina Forense]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
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<article-meta>
<article-id>S1409-00152021000300017</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Embolismo graso fulminante por lipoinyección glútea. Reporte de un caso con enfoque Médico Legal]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Fulminant fat embolism due to gluteal lipoinjection. Report of a case with a Medical Legal approach]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Argüello Borbón]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Kimberly]]></given-names>
</name>
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</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Costa Rica Departamento de Medicina Legal del Poder Judicial ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Costa Rica</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2021</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2021</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>38</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>17</fpage>
<lpage>24</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1409-00152021000300017&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1409-00152021000300017&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1409-00152021000300017&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen La liposucción es uno de los procedimientos estéticos que se realizan con mayor frecuencia a nivel mundial, con una baja incidencia de complicaciones y una mortalidad de 20 por cada 100 000 procedimientos y cuando se realiza en conjunto con una lipoinyección glútea la principal causa de muerte el embolismo graso. Se presenta el caso de una femenina de 32 años, sin patologías crónicas conocidas, la cual se asistió a un centro médico para que le realizaran una liposucción con lipoinyección glútea y falleció casi al finalizar la cirugía; en la autopsia Médico Legal se observó la presencia de material de aspecto adiposo en el tronco principal de la arteria pulmonar y en sus ramificaciones, en las cuales se obstruía por completo el lumen, mediante un estudio histopatológico se confirmó el diagnostico de embolismo graso, el cual se estableció como causa de muerte. Se realizó una revisión de la literatura sobre embolismo graso asociado a liposucción con lipoinyección glútea.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Liposuction is one of the most frequently performed cosmetic procedures worldwide, with a low incidence of complications and a mortality of 20 per 100 000 procedures, and when it is performed in conjunction with gluteal lipoinjection, the main cause of death is fat embolism. This article presents a case of a 32-year-old female, with no known chronic pathologies, who was attended at a medical center to undergo liposuction with gluteal lipoinjection and died almost at the end of the surgery; In the Medico-Legal autopsy, the presence of adipose-like material was observed in the main trunk of the pulmonary artery and in its ramifications, in which the lumen was completely obstructed, a histopathological study confirmed the diagnosis of fat embolism, which was established as the cause of death. A review of the literature about fat embolism associated with liposuction with gluteal lipoinjection was made.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Embolismo graso]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[liposucción]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[lipoinyección glútea]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[autopsia médico legal]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Fat embolism]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[liposuction]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[lipoinjection]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[medicolegal autopsy.]]></kwd>
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