Unusual Pulmonary Embolism Septic Pulmonary Embolism and Amniotic Fluid Embolism
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Fatal pulmonary embolism by amniotic fluid.
Sudden death, during or just after labour, has only too often been attributed to " obstetric shock." Out of this aetiological obscurity, in 1941 and 1942, Steiner and Lushbaugh extracted one recognizable cause of death, the finding in the maternal blood vessels of amniotic material. Recognition of other cases has followed rapidly (see review by Sluder and Lock, 1952), but thus far only three re...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation Journal
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1346-9843,1347-4820
DOI: 10.1253/circj.71.772