Amniotic Fluid Embolism: Anaphylactic Reactions With Idiosyncratic Adverse Response
Amniotic Fluid Embolism: Anaphylactic Reactions With Idiosyncratic Adverse Response
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DOI:
10.1097/ogx.0000000000000197
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发表时间:
2015-08-01
影响因子:
6.2
通讯作者:
Kobayashi, Hiroshi
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作者:
Kobayashi, Hiroshi
ProblemAmniotic fluid embolism (AFE) is a rare but severe emergency in obstetrics. The aim of the present study was to investigate the pathophysiology of AFE.MethodsA search was conducted between 1966 and 2014 through the English-language literature (online MEDLINE PubMed database) using the keyword amniotic fluid embolism combined with anaphylaxis, anaphylactoid, complement activation, mast cells, fetal antigens, and idiosyncratic.ResultsAmniotic fluid embolism is a rare clinical entity but a severe obstetric emergency that can be lethal even in previously healthy women in labor or in the early postpartum period. There appears to be at least 2 mechanisms. First, adverse reactions in AFE are usually unexpected and fetal antigen dose dependent. Given the disastrous entry of amniotic fluid into the maternal circulation, they experience a sudden cardiopulmonary collapse (mechanical obstruction subtype). Second, anaphylactic and anaphylactoid reactions of the remaining AFE are also relatively unexpected and fetal antigen dose independent and can occur at the first exposure to amniotic fluid components. They are associated with complement activation and subsequent postpartum hemorrhage. Cardiac mast cells constitute a central pathogenesis of anaphylactic (immunoglobulin E-dependent) and anaphylactoid (immunoglobulin E-independent) reactions.ConclusionsRecent immunologic studies provide a new approach to the study of the pathophysiology of AFE.Target AudienceObstetricians and gynecologists, family physicians.Learning ObjectivesAfter reading the article, the learner should be better able to diagnose women with AFE and provide information to patients as needed; describe adverse reactions associated with AFE, demonstrating that some AFE patients experience a sudden cardiopulmonary collapse (mechanical obstruction subtype) through the entry of a large amount of amniotic fluid into the maternal circulation; identify anaphylactic and anaphylactoid reactions of the remaining AFE, demonstrating that they are associated with complement activation and subsequent postpartum hemorrhage; and analyze and discuss the recent immunologic studies that provide a new approach to the study of the pathophysiology of AFE.