Clinical experience of long-term transdermal treatment with nitric oxide donor for women with preeclampsia

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-19

  Nakatsuka, Mikiya ^a   Tada, Katsuhiko ^a   Kimura, Yoshihiro ^a   Asagiri, Kazuo ^a   Kamada, Yasuhiko ^a   Takata, Masayo ^a   Nakata, Takakimi ^a   Inoue, Nanako ^a   Kudo, Takafumi ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nitric oxide; Oligohydramnios; Preeclampsia; Pregnancy; Ultrasonography; Uterine arteries

Indexed keywords

ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR;

ADULT; AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS DISTRESS; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; TRANSDERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ADULT; ARTERIES; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PULSATILE FLOW; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; UTERUS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0032901844     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000010055     Document Type: Article

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