“…FES usually occurs after fracture of long bones, and the symptoms appear 24–72 h after the initial trauma . On the other hand, non‐traumatic FES has also been reported in association with bone marrow necrosis in sickle cell disease, corticosteroid administration, fatty liver disease, bone marrow transplantation, pancreatitis, liposuction, and diabetes mellitus (DM) . Although FES is characterized by both pulmonary and systemic fat embolism, the biological mechanism of FES has not been clarified in detail …”