Maternal Death due to Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy

Jeong-Hwa Kwon; Misun Choi; Hongil Ha; Sohyung Park

doi:10.7580/kjlm.2017.41.4.141

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Kwon, Choi, Ha, and Park: Maternal Death due to Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy

Original Article

Korean J Leg Med 2017;41(4):141-144.

Published online: 19 January 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7580/kjlm.2017.41.4.141

Maternal Death due to Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy

Jeong-Hwa Kwon¹, Misun Choi², Hongil Ha², Sohyung Park²

¹Department of Pathology, Asan Medical Center, Ulsan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

²Medical Examiner's Office, National Forensic Service, Wonju, Korea

Correspondence to Sohyung Park Medical Examiner's Office, National Forensic Service, 10 Ipchun-ro, Wonju 26460, Korea Tel: +82-33-902-2505 Fax: +82-33-902-5911 E-mail: zzeva@korea.kr

Received 29 October 201721 November 2017 Accepted 28 November 2017

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Acute fatty liver of pregnancy (AFLP) is one of the sudden unexpected causes in pregnancy and maternal deaths. It has been considered as a potential fatal disease in pregnancy, but the postmortem findings of AFLP is not well known. Because an unexpected maternal death may lead to a legal dispute, forensic pathologists should be aware of clinical presentations and postmortem findings of AFLP. Therefore, we presented our case and reviewed with literatures.

Keywords: Acute fatty liver of pregnancy, Maternal death, Forensic pathology, Autopsy

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Fig. 1.

The cut surface of the liver reveals yellow tan.

Fig. 2.

Macrovesicular and microvesicular fatty changes are identified in liver (H&E, ×200).

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