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Postpartum HELLP syndrome--the case of lost battle

Sonja Pop-Trajković1, Vladimir Antić, Vesna Kopitović

  • 1Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Clinical Center Nis, Serbia. sonjapoptrajkovic@gmail.com

Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences
|October 5, 2012
PubMed

Unexpected rapid maternal death after delivery due to HELLP syndrome is rarely encountered and may become the subject of forensic expertise. Unexpectedness, suddenness, and fulminant course of this syndrome as well as absence of classical signs of pre-eclampsia can confuse physicians and lead to diagnostic delay. A definitive post-mortem diagnosis of HELLP syndrome in questionable cases of maternal death should be based on accepted laboratory criteria and characteristic histopathological alterations. We present a case of acute postpartum HELLP syndrome complicated by disseminated intravascular coagulation and acute renal failure which caused rapid maternal death only 20 hours after a caesarean section following an uncomplicated pregnancy.

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