Acute fatty liver of pregnancy--survival despite associated severe preeclampsia, coma and coagulopathy.
Acute fatty liver of pregnancy is the least common and most serious cause of jaundice of pregnancy. It is rare, fewer than 100 cases having been reported (Koff, 1981). There is a high probability that it is frequently misdiagnosed and categorized vaguely as some form of variant of 'toxaemia of pregnancy' which is not surprising because of its late-pregnancy onset and the production of multi-system manifestations (Holzback, 1976). In the case reported here, there was associated severe preeclampsia with fetal intrauterine death but maternal survival.
D000328:Adult; D003128:Coma / Q000150:complications*; D004211:Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D005234:Fatty Liver / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death; D006801:Humans; D011225:Pre-Eclampsia / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / Q000175:diagnosis