Continuous Hemodiafiltration for Potential Amniotic Fluid Embolism: Dramatic Responses Observed During a 10-Year Period Report of Three Cases

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 195-197

  Ogihara, Tohru ^a   Morimoto, Kohkichi ^b   Kaneko, Yuhko ^b  

^a Hiratsuka City Hospital   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CREATININE; DOPAMINE; FIBRINOGEN; GABEXATE MESILATE; NAFAMSTAT MESILATE; RITODRINE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AMNION FLUID EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTINUOUS HEMODIAFILTRATION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DELIVERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; FETUS DEATH; GENITAL BLEEDING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYPOPROTEINEMIA; LETTER; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOCK; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UPPER ABDOMINAL PAIN; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ABRUPTIO PLACENTAE; ADULT; EMBOLISM, AMNIOTIC FLUID; FEMALE; HEMODIAFILTRATION; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859159742     PISSN: 17449979     EISSN: 17449987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-9987.2011.01033.x     Document Type: Letter

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