What are the symptoms of amniotic fluid embolism

Update Date: 2025-10-26 Source: Network

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Recently, many pregnant women will have serious amniotic fluid embolism, in fact, the whole disease is sudden, and if the female friends of amniotic fluid embolism do not rescue well, it is easy to endanger the safety of life. What are some specific symptoms of amniotic fluid embolism attack? In fact, this needs to be well introduced.

What are the symptoms of amniotic fluid embolism

1. Respiratory and circulatory failure. According to the condition, it can be divided into violent type and slow type. After the prodromal symptoms, dyspnea and cyanosis appeared quickly. Acute pulmonary edema has cough, spitting phlegm, rapid heart rate, blood pressure drop or even disappear. A few cases died of sudden cardiac arrest after a single scream. Slow type of respiratory and circulatory system symptoms are mild, or even no obvious symptoms, until postpartum bleeding, blood coagulation is diagnosed. 　　

2. Systemic bleeding tendency. After rescue, some patients with amniotic fluid embolism went through the period of respiratory and circulatory failure, and then DIC appeared, which showed a tendency of systemic bleeding with a large amount of vaginal bleeding, such as mucous membrane, skin, needle eye bleeding and hematuria, and the blood was not coagulated. However, some cases of amniotic fluid embolism lack the symptoms of respiratory and circulatory system in clinic. The onset of the disease is difficult to control postpartum vaginal bleeding as the main performance, which is easy to be mistaken for postpartum hemorrhage caused by uterine inertia. 　　

3. Multiple system organ injury. The organs of the whole body are damaged except the heart. The kidney is the most frequently damaged organ. Due to renal hypoxia, there are oliguria, urinary incontinence, hematuria and azotemia, which can lead to death due to renal failure; patients with cerebral hypoxia can have irritability, convulsion and coma.

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Amniotic fluid embolism is a very serious gynecological disease, especially we all know that amniotic fluid embolism is a very common disease of pregnant women, because usually pregnant women will also show very irritable, and even severe vomiting, and even cyanosis. When facing such many symptoms, we should be careful.