Death mechanism of amniotic fluid embolism was inclined to anaphylactic shock: a case report

A 38-year-old woman (Gestation 2, Production 1) was admitted to hospital for awaiting delivery for her conceiving for 41+1 weeks and experiencing abdominal pain for 1 day. Typical clinical manifestations of allergic shock performed twice on her respectively during the process of labour and after complete curettage of uterine cavity, and she died soon after the second event. So it was believed that the cause of maternal death was surely amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) according to the findings of forensic pathology autopsy and histopathological examination combined with the details of this case, but her clinical manifestations before death suggested that the death mechanism of amniotic fluid embolism was more likely to be allergic shock rather than pulmonary embolism.