Acute fatty liver of pregnancy: A case report of an uncommon disease

A 24-year-old female at 34-week gestation, presented with malaise, nausea, vomiting, jaundice, and absent foetal movements. A clinical diagnosis of acute fatty liver of pregnancy was made. Although early caesarean section was performed, postoperative course was complicated by acute respiratory distr...

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Autores principales: Vora, Kalpana S., Shah, Veena R., Parikh, Geeta P.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2772253/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19881179
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.53115
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author Vora, Kalpana S.
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description A 24-year-old female at 34-week gestation, presented with malaise, nausea, vomiting, jaundice, and absent foetal movements. A clinical diagnosis of acute fatty liver of pregnancy was made. Although early caesarean section was performed, postoperative course was complicated by acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) sepsis, and continuing coagulopathy. Supportive management in an intensive care unit resulted in successful outcome.
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spelling pubmed-27722532009-11-05 Acute fatty liver of pregnancy: A case report of an uncommon disease Vora, Kalpana S. Shah, Veena R. Parikh, Geeta P. Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report A 24-year-old female at 34-week gestation, presented with malaise, nausea, vomiting, jaundice, and absent foetal movements. A clinical diagnosis of acute fatty liver of pregnancy was made. Although early caesarean section was performed, postoperative course was complicated by acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) sepsis, and continuing coagulopathy. Supportive management in an intensive care unit resulted in successful outcome. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2772253/ /pubmed/19881179 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.53115 Text en © Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Vora, Kalpana S.
Shah, Veena R.
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Acute fatty liver of pregnancy: A case report of an uncommon disease
title Acute fatty liver of pregnancy: A case report of an uncommon disease
title_full Acute fatty liver of pregnancy: A case report of an uncommon disease
title_fullStr Acute fatty liver of pregnancy: A case report of an uncommon disease
title_full_unstemmed Acute fatty liver of pregnancy: A case report of an uncommon disease
title_short Acute fatty liver of pregnancy: A case report of an uncommon disease
title_sort acute fatty liver of pregnancy: a case report of an uncommon disease
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2772253/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19881179
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.53115
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