There are several obstetric, medical, and surgical disorders that share many of the clinical and laboratory findings of patients with severe preeclampsia-hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelets syndrome. Imitators of severe preeclampsia-hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelets syndrome are life-threatening emergencies that can develop during pregnancy or in the postpart...

Acute fatty liver of pregnancy (AFLP) is a life-threatening disease for both mothers and the baby presented with failure. Although early recognition prompt delivery (the best maternal survival rate when interval from occurrence AFLP to one week), stabilization in intensive care setting supportive therapy ideal. Still, effective treatment failure unknown. For diagnosis, high bilirubin levels, lo...

We report a case of 29 years old woman who was diagnosed with acute fatty liver of pregnancy at 23 weeks of gestation with unusual evolution (pregnancy prolonged until 36 weeks of gestation) to draw attention on the possibility of occurrence of this pathology in the second trimester of pregnancy even with a milder clinical presentation and course.

The patient, who was 28 years old and in her first pregnancy (34 weeks), was admitted to the obstetric ward because of jaundice. She complained of weakness, anorexia, and vomiting. No history of high blood pressure was reported. On the first day of hospitalization she spontaneously delivered a ‘mors in utero’. The immediate postpartum period was followed by a severe haemorrhage and it became ne...

Liver diseases related to pregnancy may be associated with preeclampsia (liver dysfunction related to preeclampsia; hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelets with or without preeclampsia [HELLP syndrome]; and acute fatty liver of pregnancy) or may not involve preeclampsia (hyperemesis gravidarum and intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy). Liver diseases associated with pregnancy have...

Leptospirosis is a leading zoonotic disease worldwide with more than 1 million cases in the general population per year. There significant mortality due to both delays diagnosis as well adequate clinical suspicion. also an overlap between signs, symptoms and biochemical disturbances associated leptospirosis pregnancy presentation of conditions, such pre-eclampsia (PET), acute fatty liver (AFLP)...