A case of successful management of mater
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Junzo Hamanishi; Hiroaki Itoh; Norimasa Sagawa; Takahiro Nakayama; Shigetoshi Ya
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Article
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2002
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Maternal sepsis is an unusual but catastrophic complication of amniocentesis. We report a case of successful treatment of maternal septic shock and multiple organ failure following amniocentesis at midgestation, possibly due to needle puncture of the sigmoid colon, which was tightly adh