[Acute gravidic steatosis: review and management]

The acute gravidic steatosis is a specific hepatopaty of pregnancy that has a low frequency witch often very serious. On the light of a gravidic steatosis case histological proved progenitors analyse the clinical criteria of positive diagnosis. The coexistence of an hepatic anomaly that is of an hyperuricemia with a normotensive woman is too suggestive of the diagnosis. The maternal mortality exceeded 92% before 1970, now it has reached 10%. his amelioration is mainly due the obstetric attitude of evacuation and the progress of reanimation.