Amniotic fluid embolism: the known and not known
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Amniotic fluid embolism: the known and not known.
Amniotic fluid embolism was first recognized in 1926, in a Brazilian journal case report, on the basis of large amounts of fetal material in the maternal pulmonary vasculature at autopsy. The first English language description appeared in 1941 and consisted of eight parturients dying suddenly in which, once again, fetal material was seen in the pulmonary vasculature. A control group of 34 pregn...
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عنوان ژورنال: Obstetric Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1753-495X,1753-4968
DOI: 10.1177/1753495x13513578