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CORD ENTANGLEMENT CAUSING PREMATURE PLACENTAL SEPARATION AND AMNIOTIC FLUID EMBOLISM
Author(s) -
Corridan M.,
Kendall E. D.,
Begg J. D.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1980.tb04455.x
Subject(s) - amniotic fluid , amniotic fluid embolism , placenta , medicine , fetus , cord , obstetrics , premature rupture of membranes , pregnancy , surgery , biology , genetics
Summary A woman died undelivered of amniotic fluid embolism. Postmortem examination showed that cord entanglement had caused premature placental separation with a marginal tear of the membranes and so opened a route of entry for amniotic fluid into the subplacental maternal venous sinuses. It is suggested that premature separation of the normally implanted placenta, associated with macro‐or microscopic tears of or damage to the fetal membranes, provides a route of entry for amniotic fluid through the placental site in approximately one half of the fatal cases of amniotic fluid embolism.