The present study demonstrates the significance of autopsy in cases of maternal deaths in elucidating the cause of death due to Amniotic fluid embolism; and to corroborate the pathological, microscopic and clinical features of such deaths. A retrospective five year cross-sectional study on 24 fatal cases of amniotic fluid embolism, confirmed by autopsy findings, clinical features and post-morte...

Amniotic fluid embolism is a rare syndrome with potentially lethal outcomes. Complications include cardiorespiratory failure, disseminated intra-vascular coagulation, seizures, neurological deficits, and death. A 34-year-old woman had amniotic fluid embolism complicated by paradoxical embolism and disseminated intravascular coagulation. Emergency cesarean section followed by cardiopulmonary byp...

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 t...

Literature concerning procoagulant activity of the amniotic fluid and pathomechanism of amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) was surveyed and a new concept of its pathogenesis, called the integrated concept of AFE, was presented. According to this concept, two components of the amniotic fluid are involved: 1) apoptosis-affected amniotic cells showing a special role in the initiation of disseminated in...

Obstetric pulmonary embolism forms the most serious vascular problem during pregnancy. The following report is a retrospective study into maternal deaths in Malaysian mothers probably due to obstetrical pulmonary embolism. Obstetric pulmonary embolism can be divided into amniotic fluid embolism and obstetric blood clot embolism. There were 37 maternal deaths attributable to this cause -9.9 per ...