Pregnancy outcome in familial homozygous hypercholesterolemic females treated with long-term plasma exchange

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 603-

  Beigel, Yitzhak ^a,b   Bar, Jacob ^a,b   Cohen, Maya ^a,b   Hod, Moshe ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Familial homozygous hypercholesterolemia; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LONGEVITY; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNCOPE; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

EID: 0031713252     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0412.1998.770605.x     Document Type: Article

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