maternal death autopsy
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MATERNAL DEATH AUTOPSY
DR.JANANI MATHIALAGAN1st year PG - Pathology
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OVERVIEW• Definition• Classification• Direct causes• Indirect causes• Summary
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DEFINITION• Death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or its management but not accidental or incidental causes.
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MATERNAL MORTALITY RATIO = No. of maternal death x 100,000 No. of live births
INDIA: 2007-2009 = 212/100,000 live births2011-2013 = 167/100,000 live births
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CLASSIFICATION OF MATERNAL DEATH• DIRECT • INDIRECT• COINCIDENTAL
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Direct Indirect Coincidental
Definition Conditions directly related to pregnancy &/or deliveryOnly happens through pregnancy
Diseases not directly related to pregnancy or delivery but are exacerbated by it.
Diseased or events unrelated to pregnancy and not influenced by pregnancy.
Examples
• Pre-eclampsia• Amniotic fluid
embolism• Genital tract
trauma• Post partum
hemorrhage• Genital tract sepsis
• Aortic dissection
• Congenital heart disease
• Venous thromboembolism
• HIV/AIDS
• Homicide• Road collision• Illicit drug
toxicity• Most cancers• Some suicides
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DIRECT CAUSES• Amniotic fluid embolism syndrome• Hypertensive disease of pregnancy• Peripartum hemorrhage• Peripartum dilated cardiomyopathy• Sepsis• Air embolism
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AMNIOTIC FLUID EMBOLISM SYNDROME• Clinical triad
Hypotension/ cardiac arrestPulmonary vasospasmCoagulopathy with severe bleeding
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During or just after labor or caesarean section
Entry of amniotic fluid, fetal hair, amniotic & fetal squamous cells into maternal circulation
Embolise in the small vessels of the lungs
Triggers acute anaphylactic response
Cardiopulmonary shutdown, clotting cascade, consumptive coagulopathy.
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Important autopsy pathology is in the lungs.
Stains used: H & E Alcian blue (amniotic acid mucin) LP 34 (high molecular wt keratin) Endothelial CD31 (diff b/w embolic squames & sloughed endothelial cells)
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• Renal glomeruli:fibrin thrombi is usually found in capillary
lumens (indicating DIC as a part of AFES)
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• Uterus:mucosal bleeding sitesAmniotic fluid material in mural veins
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MEDICO LEGAL ASPECT:• AFE is inevitably fatal.• So can be used as a defence against claims of clinical negligence where there has been fatal peri- or postpartum hemorrhage.
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HYPERTENSIVE DISEASES OF PREGNANCYPre-eclampsia: raised blood pressure,
oedema,proteinuria.
Predisposing factorsessential hypertension,renal disease,obesity
Asssociated with HELLP syndrome (hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelet
count)
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• Eclampsia:clonic tonic seizures occurring in a patient with
pre-eclampsia.
It has high mortality rate.
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Eclampsia induced endothelial cell damage
Vasogenic oedema
Encephalopathy
HELLP syndrome
Liver failure and capsular rupture
Intra-abdominal hemorrhage
Eclampsia
Intracerebral
hemorrhage
death
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AUTOPSY PATHOLOGY:• BRAIN: deep intracerebral hemorrhage
diffuse cortical petechial hemorrhage – occipital lobe
diffuse cerebral oedema
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• KIDNEY: Glomerular endotheliosis endothelial cells are swollen and appears
bloodlessglomerulus herniates into proximal tubuleendothelial cells vacuolated with lipid
Special stain: Silver – basement membrane thickening and remodeling resulting in string of beads appearance
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• UTERUS AND PLACENTA:reduced arterial blood supply on the villi, with
foci of infarction.decidua shows atherosis and fibrinoid necrosis
of the spiral arterioles.
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• LIVER:focal and confluent hemorrhagic necrosisMicroscopically – Periportal fibrin deposition,
hemorrhage,hepatocyte necrosis
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PERI & POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGECAUSES:• uterine atony, placenta praevia, retained placenta
• placental abruption• creta syndromes• genital tract trauma• uterine rupture• abortion
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UTERINE ATONY, PLACENTA PRAEVIA, RETAINED PLACENTA
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PLACENTAL ABRUPTIONDEFINITION:
Premature separation of placenta from the walls of the uterus during pregnancy.
Leaves a clot b/w maternal placental surface and uterus
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CRETA SYNDROMESAdherent placenta
It can be accretaincretapercreta
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Previous c- section
Fibrotic scar
Decidua becomes sub-
optimalPlacental villi
attaches directly to uterine muscle
Adherent placenta
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GENITAL TRACT TRAUMABy large babies or clumsly assisted delivery.
Vagina, cevix, lower uterus can be torn
Entitre genital tract en block dissection is done (from vagina to uterine fundus)FixedSerially horizontally sliced and sampled to depict tear dimention and vesses rupture.
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UTERINE RUPTURE• Causes: big baby
small pelvisprolonged labourdrugs – misoprotol and oxytocics
On examination of uterus, typically lateral rupture is seen.
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ABORTION• Expulsion of products of conception before completion of 28 weeks of gestation.
• Causes of maternal death is due toascending genital tract sepsisuterine hemorrhage
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SEPSIS• Sepsis is commonly due to bacteraemic septic shock
multi-organ failureDIC
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SEPSIS CLASSIFICATION
SEPSIS CLASSIFICATIONS.No
Category Case definition Agent Pathology
1. Unsafe abortion Illegal termination of pregnancy
Clostridium spp.
Mulit organ failure
2. Ruptured membranes GT infections during the time of membrane rupture
E.coli Infected and inflamed placenta, cord, membrane, GT sepsis, MOF
3. Postdelivery Delivery followed by 1-2 days of wellness followed by GT infection
Group A streptococcus pyogenes (GAS)
GT sepsis, MOF,
4. Community acquired sepsis
Membranes intact, not in labour
GAS, Pneumococcus
TSS,MOF
5. Postpartal sepsis related to birth process, but GT not involved
C-section wound infection, infected spinal anaesthesia
Gram negative & gram positive organisms
Localised sepsis leading to MOF
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• Autopsy pathology:placenta (with microbiology culture)pre-evisceration maternal blood culture (taken
aseptically)any pre-death cultures if done
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• SEMELWEIS SYNDROME:
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INDIRECT CAUSES• Venous thromboembolism• Cardiac causes• Systemic hypertension• Idiopathic arterial pulmonary hypertension• Pre-existing thrombophilia states (anti-PLA syndrome)• Thrombotic thrombocytopaenic purpura• Stroke• Psychiatric causes• SUDEP (sudden unexplained death in epilepsy)
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VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM• It occurs following C-section in the form of massive pulmonary embolism.
• Pregnant women are 10 times more prone for VTE
• Autopsy pathology:examine the entire length of the pulmonary
artery tree to show massive thromboembolism
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CARDIO VASCULAR DISEASEPATHOGENESIS:
inherent predisposition +
progesterone associated weakening of the tunica media
(Elastic degenerationMucin depositsAttenuated muscle)
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Weakening of the wall of aorta,
medium and large arteries
Aneurysm
Dissection
Rupture
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CARDIAC DISEASESIt includes• congenital heart lesion with pulmonary hypertension
• inheritable cardiomyopathy• acquired cardiac muscle disease• SADS (sudden unexpected arrhythmic cardiac death synd)
• valvular disease (IV drug users, rheumatic mitral stenosis)
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• Predisposing factors:lifestyleobesityincreasing age of pregnant women
In inheritable cardiac conditions (long QT syndrome), autopsy will be negative and heart morphologically normal. Retaining a piece of frozen spleen tissue is done for later DNA analysis.
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PERIPARTUM CARDIOMYOPATHY:
• Heart failure during the last month of pregnancy and upto 5 months post-delivery with all other causes excluded.
Aetiology: oxidative pro-apoptotic stress on myocytes,
related to prolactin.
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THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPAENIC PURPURA
Abnormalities of von Willebrand factor
Platelet clustering and adhesion to endothelium
Platele thrombi blocking small vessels to brain,
kidney, heart
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Laboratory data: low plateletsnormal clotting factors and fibrin
C/P:microangiopathic anaemiarenal failureblockage of arterioles and venules in
myocardium resulting in hemorrhagic infarction and acute heart failure
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PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS• Pregnancy is a relative immunodepressed state • So
listeriosis, tuberculosis, viral infections are more aggressive
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EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA• Type A/ H1N1 influenza• Mainly affects third trimester• Results in
influenza pneumonitis,acute lung injury,secondary bacterial pneumonia.
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HIV• More prevalent in low-income countries with high HIV prevalence
• 10 fold increase in maternal mortality
• Death is mostly due to TB or other opportunistic infections or sepsis.
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SUMMARY• Before evisceration, sterile blood cultures is to be sampled
• Close attention to pulmonary artery, heart and genital tract
• Systemic sampling of all organs for histopathology• If autopsy is negative, retain a piece of spleen for DNA analysis
• Clinical negligence claim
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References:• Recent advances in histopathology 23 ( chapter 2 )
• WHO website ( maternal mortality )
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