• Da-Wei Wang, Yi-Mei Yin, and Yong-Ming Yao.
• Dr Wang is an intensivist in the ICU at Weihai Municipal Hospital in Weihai, ChinaDr Yin is an ultrasonologist in the Department of Ultrasound at Weihai Municipal Hospital in Weihai, ChinaDr Yao is a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Burns Institute at First Affiliated Hospital of the Chinese PLA General Hospital in Beijing, China.
• Aesthet Surg J. 2014 Nov 1; 34 (8): NP83-7.

AbstractAutologous fat injection is a common aesthetic procedure for soft-tissue augmentation of the face. Although this procedure is generally regarded as safe, several patients have experienced acute visual loss or cerebral infarction after these injections. We describe a case of internal and external carotid artery fat embolism that occurred following injection of autologous fat into the face. It appeared that the injected fat entered a branch of the left external carotid artery and that the embolus likely migrated into the left internal carotid artery and distally into the left ophthalmic artery, left anterior artery, and middle cerebral artery. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE 5: © 2014 The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Inc.

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