title: Clinical course of disseminated intravascular coagulopathy-type amniotic fluid embolism: A report of three cases.
abstract: Amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) is a rare complication of pregnancy and its mortality rate is high. There have been few reports of AFE with presence of severe coagulopathy and incoagulable bleeding, and absence of cardiopulmonary symptoms or limited cardiopulmonary symptoms, followed by massive blood loss during delivery. Such cases have been referred to as disseminated intravascular coagulopathy-type AFE, and the characteristics of this condition have been presented previously. Here we report three cases that fulfilled the diagnostic characteristics of disseminated intravascular coagulopathy-type AFE.
authors.affiliation: Division of Perinatology, Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy, Maternal and Perinatal Care Center, Shizuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: Akihiro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
authors.affiliation: Division of Perinatology, Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy, Maternal and Perinatal Care Center, Shizuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Murakoshi
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: Yoshiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Otsuki
authors.affiliation: Division of Perinatology, Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy, Maternal and Perinatal Care Center, Shizuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: Yuichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Torii
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004211:Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology*; D004619:Embolism, Amniotic Fluid / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy
keywords: amniotic fluid embolism; anaphylactoid reaction; atonic bleeding; disseminated intravascular coagulopathy; maternal death