Successful outcome of idiopathic nonimmune hydrops fetalis treated by maternal digoxin?

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 137-139

  Chavkin, Yoseph ^a   Kupfersztain, Carlos ^a   Pierre, Zivanit Ergaz ^a   Finkel, Guedj Aliza R ^a   Stark, Michael ^a  

^a Misgav Ladach General Hospital Israel   (Israel)

Author keywords

Digoxin; Hydrops fetalis; Nonimmune; Transplacental therapy

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC GLYCOSIDE; DIGOXIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HYDROPS; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029792419     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: 1423002X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000291925     Document Type: Article

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