Amniotic Fluid Embolism Risks AFE has no reliable method of prediction, but some risk factors have been consistently identified in clinical case studies and reviews.

This illustrates the difficulties of comparing data across studies with differing case identification processes and definitions and varying levels of detail about individual risk factors.

THE syndrome of acute fatal amniotic-fluid embolism in parturient women, although relatively rare, is adequately described in the literature, 1–9 and the occurrence of nonfatal cases has been ...

Amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) is a life threatening complication that may occur during pregnancy. Although rare, it has a high mortality rate. Learn more.

AMONG the rarer causes of maternal death, pulmonary embolism by amniotic fluid has been the subject of considerable recent interest.1 In most patients with this disorder who survived the period of ...

Rachel Storch had an amniotic fluid embolism, a rare and dangerous pregnancy complication. She needed life support and blood transfusions to survive.

On March 31, nursing influencer Hailey Okula died after suffering an amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) after childbirth. The complication affects only one in every 40,000 deliveries, and her husband ...

Amniotic Fluid Embolism And Associated Complications Publication Trend The graph below shows the total number of publications each year in Amniotic Fluid Embolism And Associated Complications.

During labor, Annie Sterle suffered an amniotic fluid embolism (AFE). "It's considered a catastrophic complication of delivery," Minneapolis Heart Institute Interventional Cardiologist Dr. Michael ...

Moline mother Annie Hewitt shared her experience with amniotic fluid embolism with News 8. In her case, her lungs stopped working, and doctors had to perform an emergency C-section to save her and ...

After near-death experience, mom looks to raise awareness for amniotic fluid embolism WCCO via CNN Newsource Annie Sterle suffered an amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) during labor.