Medications for pulmonary embolism may decrease the size of blood clots, help dissolve them, or reduce the risk of recurrence. All of these medications carry the risk of bleeding. A pulmonary ...
However, a more probable explanation is that amniotic fluid entering the maternal circulation can produce, in addition to the well known embolism syndrome, a hemorrhagic tendency, manifested by ...
Steiner and Lushbaugh, 1 in 1941, first recognized amniotic-fluid embolism — a syndrome produced by entrance of amniotic-sac contents into the maternal circulation — to be a significant cause ...
Kayleigh Summers, 34, had an amniotic fluid embolism that caused heart and lung failure. Her baby was born via emergency cesarean six minutes after she lost consciousness. She was in the hospital for ...