title: [Sixteen-year-old woman with multiorgan dysfunction after HELLP].
abstract: HELLP is a syndrome with haemolysis, elevated liver enzymes and thrombocytopenia. It occurs in 1 to 6 per 1,000 parturient. Approximately 10% of the cases occur post partum. A 16-year-old woman delivered twins in the 34th gestational week. During the following hours, she developed symptoms of hypovolaemic shock. Blood sample values were critical and the patient was diagnosed with HELLP with DIC. She developed liver shock with encephalopathy and acute renal failure. Her condition stabilized on the 8th day of admission and the woman was extubated on the 16th day. She was discharged without complications on the 22 th day.
authors.affiliation: Anaestesiologisk Afdeling V, Odense Universitetshospital, DK-5000 Odense C, Denmark. rwh@dadlnet.dk
authors.forename: Rasmus Wulff
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Hauritz
authors.forename: Flemming
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Køhler
authors.forename: Jan Stener
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Jørgensen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002585:Cesarean Section; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D017359:HELLP Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D017093:Liver Failure / Q000209:etiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011272:Pregnancy, Multiple; D051437:Renal Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014427:Twins