- Cardiopulmonary collapse without or with cardiac arrest (1st phase)
- Coagulation disturbances (DIC) followed by consumption coagulopathy (2nd phase)
- Multiorgan dysfunction (3rd phase)
- Distant complications: neurological complications affecting mother and child
- Uterine hemorhage type of AFE (atonia uteri and/or consumption coagulpathy)
- Adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) as form of atypical AFE
- Paradoxical AFE
- Cesarean section-related atypical AFE