AMNIOTIC-FLUID EMBOLISM - A CASE WITH NONCARDIOGENIC PULMONARY-EDEMA

Authors
KOEGLER A SAUDER P MAROLF A JAEGER A
Citation
A. Koegler et al., AMNIOTIC-FLUID EMBOLISM - A CASE WITH NONCARDIOGENIC PULMONARY-EDEMA, Intensive care medicine, 20(1), 1994, pp. 45-46
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Emergency Medicine & Critical Care
Journal title
Intensive care medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
03424642
Volume
20
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
45 - 46
Database
ISI
SICI code
0342-4642(1994)20:1<45:AE-ACW>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
We report an uncommon case of amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) in a 24-ye ar-old woman with a 26th-week, second pregnancy. Clinical manifestatio ns were dominated by acute respiratory distress and pulmonary edema. R ecovery was complete. Early invasive hemodynamic studies showed normal function of the left ventricle with a low pulmonary artery occluded p ressure. These findings are controversial to the concept of cardiogeni c pulmonary edema in AFE.