Amniotic fluid embolism: Moving diagnosis through the time. from the mechanical pulmonary vascular occlusion until an immuno - inflammatory pathogenesis?

Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

Volumn 14, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 1179-1188

  Turillazzi, Emanuela ^a   Neri, Maria ^a   Bello, Stefania ^a   Riezzo, Irene ^c   Fineschi, Vittorio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Amniotic fluid embolism syndrome; Complement activation; Diagnosis; Immunological pathway; Inflammatory response; Neutrophil activation; Platelet neutrophil aggregation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; CYTOKERATIN 10; CYTOKERATIN 13; ENDOTHELIN 1; FETAL ANTIGEN; HISTAMINE; PROSTAGLANDIN; TRYPTASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AMNION FLUID EMBOLISM; ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; ANIMAL; EMBOLISM, AMNIOTIC FLUID; FEMALE; HISTORY; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG DISEASES; PREGNANCY; VASCULAR DISEASES;

ANIMALS; EMBOLISM, AMNIOTIC FLUID; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; PREGNANCY; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 84904040136     PISSN: 13892010     EISSN: 18734316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1389201015666140430165907     Document Type: Article

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