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Amniotic fluid embolism: fatal case confirmed at autopsy five weeks after delivery
1Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic., Australia.
Pathology
|October 1, 1988
Abstract:
A 28-year-old woman died 36 days after an episode of shock followed by disseminated intravascular coagulation clinically thought to be due to amniotic fluid embolism (AFE). At necropsy squames could be still be identified in an infarcted area of lung and the clinical diagnosis proved.