Death due to thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura in pregnancy: Case report with review of thrombotic microangiopathies of pregnancy

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 189-198

  Kemp, Walter L ^a   Barnard, Jeffrey J ^a,b   Prahlow, Joseph A ^a,b,c  

^a Southwest Institute of Forensic Science Dallas   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c South Bend Medical Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Cause of death; Pregnancy; Thrombotic microangiopathy; Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; HELLP SYNDROME; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER FATTY DEGENERATION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MICROTHROMBUS; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA;

ADULT; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC;

EID: 0032992845     PISSN: 01957910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000433-199906000-00017     Document Type: Article

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