ACUTE STEATOSIS IN PREGNANCY AS A CAUSE OF MATERNAL DEATH: CASE REPORT
The article presents a case report on maternal death associated with a rare enough disease - acute steatosis of pregnant women. This disease, combined with chronic endometritis and focal purulent necrotic basal deciduitis, led to the early post-natal coagulopathic bleeding, hemorrhagic shock, development of disseminated intravascular coagulopathy with characteristic clinical, laboratory and morphological signs. The risk factors of acute steatosis in this patient include the antibiotic (clindamycin) treatment, multiple pregnancy, pregnancy with male fetus.