Twin pregnancy in a woman on long-term epoprostenol therapy for primary pulmonary hypertension: A case report

Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 149-152

  Badalian, Samvel S ^a   Silverman, Robert K ^a   Aubry, Richard H ^a   Longo, James ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epoprostenol; Hypertension, pulmonary; Nitric oxide; Twins

Indexed keywords

PROSTACYCLIN; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SURVIVAL; TWIN PREGNANCY;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ADULT; ANTICOAGULANTS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BRONCHODILATOR AGENTS; EPOPROSTENOL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; NITRIC OXIDE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; SYNDROME; TWINS; WARFARIN;

EID: 0034005089     PISSN: 00247758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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