Undiagnosed broken hip caused death

A man died from a pulmonary embolism, a blood clot that blocked a major artery in the lung, a month after leaving hospital after being admitted for injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. He was receiving analgesics for an injured hip that was an undiagnosed fracture despite being reviewed by 7 doctors and undergoing x-rays.

Source: summary of medical news story as reported by AGI Online

Related Disease Topics:

• Pulmonary embolism
• Fracture

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About: Undiagnosed broken hip caused death

Source: AGI Online

URL: http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200512301150-1021-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia

Related Medical Topics

This summary article refers to the following medical categories:

• Risk and fracture
• Risk and hip fracture
• Risk and traumatic break
• Risk and broken hip
• Risk and embolism
• Risk and pulmonary embolism
• Risk and death
• Risk and traumatic embolism
• Undiagnosed
• Undiagnosed and fracture
• Undiagnosed and hip fracture
• Undiagnosed and broken hip
• Undiagnosed and broken bone
• Undiagnosed and doctors
• Undiagnosed and leg x-ray
• Undiagnosed and x-ray
• Undiagnosed and traumatic break
• Undiagnosed and traumatic fracture
• Undiagnosed and death
• Death from embolism
• Death from pulmonary embolism
• Death from blood clot
• Death from hip fracture
• Death from fractured hip
• Death from broken hip
• Misdiagnosis (type of Medical misadventure)
• Misdiagnosis and hip fracture
• Misdiagnosis and fractured hip
• Misdiagnosis and broken hip
• Misdiagnosis and x-ray
• Misdiagnosis and leg x-ray
• Misdiagnosis and pulmonary embolism
• Misdiagnosis and embolism
• Misdiagnosis and blood clot
• Misdiagnosis and doctors

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