A new treatment of severe pre-eclampsia by long-term epidural anaesthesia

Journal of Human Hypertension

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 167-171

  Kanayama, N ^a   Belayet, H M ^a   Khatun, S ^a   Tokunaga, N ^a   Sugimura, M ^a   Kobayashi, T ^a   Terao, T ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epidural anaesthesia; Pre eclampsia; Sympathetic nerve; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BED REST; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DISTRESS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PREECLAMPSIA; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEINURIA; SYMPATHETIC TONE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033022969     PISSN: 09509240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jhh.1000783     Document Type: Article

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