Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy at Umtata General Hospital: Perinatal and maternal outcomes

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 217-222

  Buga, G A B ^a   Lumu, S B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRANSKEI   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL HEALTH; PREGNANCY;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMA; DELIVERY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; HELLP SYNDROME; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN DEATH; OBSTETRIC CARE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIMIGRAVIDA; PROTEINURIA; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SOUTH AFRICA;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0032590117     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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