HELLP syndrome: Clinical profile of seven patients

Annals of Saudi Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 159-161

  Barlas, Shahid ^a   Al Mobarak, Mohammed Faisal ^a   Shaheen, Taher Abdulrahim ^a   El Badawi, Seif Ferki ^a   Noorwali, Fatima ^a  

^a King Abdulaziz Hosp and Oncology Centre   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCT; LIVER ENZYME;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLICATION; ECLAMPSIA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HELLP SYNDROME; HEMOLYSIS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; HYPOTENSION; JAUNDICE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NAUSEA; PARITY; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STILLBIRTH; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UREMIA; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VOMITING;

EID: 0029890622     PISSN: 02564947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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