Acute fatty liver in pregnancy. Presentation of a case
Martínez Abundis, E.; Nuñez Camarena, J.J.; Angulo Vazquez, J.; Vargas Gonzalez, A.; Rodríguez Arias, E.A.
Ginecologia y Obstetricia de Mexico 57: 311-314
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0300-9041 PMID: 2486970 Document Number: 338504
Acute fatty liver of pregnancy (AFLP) is not a very frequent disease, of unknown etiology mainly present in the 3rd trimester of the pregnancy. Early diagnosis and treatment including interruption of pregnancy (delivery or caesarean section) had been the key for decreasing fetal-maternal morbidity-mortality in recent years. This paper analyzes a clinical report of a 30 years old woman suffering AFLP histologically confirmed admitted to our hospital two weeks after illness started and who died because of secondary complications which did not respond to management probably because it was too late.