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Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy – Survival Despite Associated Severe Preeclampsia, Coma and Coagulopathy
Author(s) -
Cheng Chee Yam
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.734
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1479-828X
pISSN - 0004-8666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1479-828x.1983.tb00179.x
Subject(s) - acute fatty liver of pregnancy , pregnancy , preeclampsia , medicine , coagulopathy , jaundice , consumptive coagulopathy , obstetrics , coma (optics) , fetus , liver failure , genetics , physics , optics , biology
Summary: Acute fatty liver of pregnancy is the least common and most serious cause of jaundice of pregnancy. It is rare, fewer than 100 cases having been reported (Koff, 1981). There is a high probability that it is frequently misdiagnosed and categorized vaguely as some form of variant of ‘toxaemia of pregnancy’ which is not surprising because of its late‐pregnancy onset and the production of multi‐system manifestations (Holzback, 1976). In the case reported here, there was associated severe preeclampsia with fetal intrauterine death but maternal survival.