[Acute fatty liver in pregnancy. Presentation of a case]

Acute fatty liver of pregnancy (AFLP) is not a very frequent disease, of unknown etiology mainly present in the 3rd trimester of the pregnancy. Early diagnosis and treatment including interruption of pregnancy (delivery or caesarean section) had been the key for decreasing fetal-maternal morbidity-mortality in recent years. This paper analyzes a clinical report of a 30 years old woman suffering AFLP histologically confirmed admitted to our hospital two weeks after illness started and who died because of secondary complications which did not respond to management probably because it was too late.