AFLP and HELLP syndrome
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ed from the database of PubMed (1979 – December 2012) using the search 67 terms including “acute fatty liver of pregnancy”, “HELLP syndrome”, and “liver 68 AFLP and HELLP syndrome 5 dysfunction in pregnancy”. English literatures cited in these reports were also 69
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Authors reply: Distinguishing between hantavirus-induced haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and pregnancy-induced liver pathologies (AFLP and HELLP syndromes).
To the editor: We thank Clement et al. for their interest in our work [1] and for questioning the diagnostic sequence and management of such a complex clinical and biological situation. During pregnancy, diagnosis of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) caused by hantaviruses, including Seoul virus (SEOV), can easily be missed due to its rarity and its ‘pseudo-vasculoplacental’ clinica...
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