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As a Cause of Obstetric Shock and Unexpected Deaths in Obstetrics

Paul E. Steiner, M.D., Ph.D; C. C. Lushbaugh, B.S.

JAMA. 1986;255(16):2187-2203.

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While most of the deaths occurring during labor and in the early puerperium are said to be due to hemorrhage, toxemia, heart disease or other less common obstetric and medical causes, a few fatalities remain unexplained even after careful postmortem examination.¹ In the absence of pathologic chemical and anatomic changes such deaths are often considered, without proof, to be on a functional basis. It is the object of this paper to attempt to fill this gap in our knowledge and to point out that some of these obscure deaths form a disease entity with its characteristic causation, symptoms and pathologic changes by (a) presenting the clinical histories of 8 patients to show that they form a distinct group, (b) demonstrating in them a pathologic-anatomic basis for this series of symptoms and (c) demonstrating the experimental production of this disease in animals, the disease in them having a similar symptomatology . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Chicago

From the Department of Pathology of the University of Chicago.

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Owing to lack of space, this article has been abbreviated for publication in The Journal. The complete paper appears in the authors' reprints, which will be sent on request.

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