Pregnancy-induced hypertension and acute fatty liver of pregnancy: atypical presentations.
Severe pregnancy-induced hypertension and markedly elevated levels of serum alkaline phosphatase developed in a 29-year-old-woman in whom one pregnancy resulted in intrauterine death. Acute fatty liver of pregnancy developed with good fetal outcome in the next pregnancy. This case suggests that pregnancy-induced hypertension and acute fatty liver of pregnancy are part of a clinical spectrum. Moreover, classic abnormalities of liver function tests need not be present in acute fatty liver of pregnancy.
Brown
M A
MA
Department of Renal Medicine and Obstetrics, St. George Hospital, Kogarah, Sydney, Australia.
Passaris
G
G
Carlton
M A
MA
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase / Q000097:blood; D004796:Clinical Enzyme Tests; D005234:Fatty Liver / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008111:Liver Function Tests; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / Q000175:diagnosis*
D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase