On Aug. 21, at 33 weeks pregnant, Marisa and Dillion Christie arrived at Memorial Hermann Medical Center in Houston for a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HANNAH GIBSON GAVE BIRTH TO BABY LUCAS AND SUFFERED AN AMNIOTIC FLUID EMBOLISM. DOCTORS SAID SHE WOULD BE ON A VENTILATOR, BLIND AND UNABLE TO WALK, BUT FOUR MONTHS LATER, SHE MIGHT NOT MAKE IT ...

Kayleigh Summers had an amniotic fluid embolism that caused heart and lung failure. She doesn't remember giving birth to her ...

Opens in a new tab or window The FDA has sent warning letters to two companies regarding their amniotic membrane- and fluid-derived PalinGen products, charging they should be regulated as drugs ...

My OB/GYN recognized that I was having an amniotic fluid embolism, an allergic-like reaction that happens when amniotic fluid enters a mothers' blood stream. It leads to heart and lung failure ...

A pulmonary embolism is a blood clot in the pulmonary artery, which carries blood from your heart to your lungs. It’s a medical emergency that requires immediate medical attention. Research from ...

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 ...