Diagnosis is primarily clinical although the Japanese
managed to develop a test for it.
Kobayashi H, Ohi H, Terao T. A simple, noninvasive,
sensitive method for diagnosis of amniotic fluid
embolism by monoclonal antibody TKH-2 that recognizes
NeuAc alpha 2-6GalNAc.
Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1993 Mar;168(3 Pt 1):848-53.
regards
Mohammad
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Have just been asked by Obs & Gynae Reg if we can do a
discriminating test for amniotic fluid in a possible
"amniotic fluid embolus" in a post C-section 27 y.o.
Any ideas? We are a DGH which stopped doing L/S ratios
etc when Tony Blair was an undergraduate.
Phil Wills,QEH Woolwich
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