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Pregnancy increases the risk for respiratory failure from to numerous pulmonary diseases. Adult respiratory distress syndrome, aspiration, venous air embolism, asthma, thromboembolism, and heart disease are etiologies shared by non-pregnant women. However, their management is complicated by complex physiologic changes during pregnancy. Amniotic fluid embolism and tocolytic-induced pulmonary edema are unique to pregnancy and must be added to the list of causes of respiratory failure. Diagnostics and supportive care is difficult and must be directed with the mother and the fetus in mind. This dictates a thorough understanding of maternal physiology, and the safety of drug use during pregnancy.
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PMID:Acute respiratory failure in pregnancy. 863 95

Amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) is a rare but potentially lethal obstetric condition affecting women during labor, delivery, or also in the immediate postpartum period, when amniotic fluid, fetal cells, hair, or other debris could enter the maternal circulation. We present the first case of AFE described in literature in a 33-year-old patient with a complex history of congenital heart disease, where the crucial points for successful course were the prompt recognition and treatment of the disease and the use, for the first time, as diagnostic tool for AFE, of right ventricular free-wall longitudinal speckle-tracking strain.
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PMID:Amniotic Fluid Embolism in a Grown-Up Congenital Heart Disease Patient. 3100 34