Association of pregnancy complications and choice of immunosuppressant in liver transplant patients

Transplantation

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 581-583

  Casele, Holly L ^a,b   Laifer, Steven A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FETUS OUTCOME; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION RISK; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT;

ANEMIA; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT, NEWBORN; KIDNEY DISEASES; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0032570531     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199802270-00023     Document Type: Article

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