Increased D-dimer Levels in twin gestation

Thrombosis Research

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 485-489

  Bar, Jacob ^a   Blickstein, Dorit ^a   Hod, Moshe ^a   Bar Hava, Itai ^a   Ben Rafael, Zion ^a   Rahmany Babai, Juliette ^b   Lahav, Judith ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

D dimer; Pregnancy; Singleton; Twins

Indexed keywords

D DIMER;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TWIN PREGNANCY; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; FIBRINOGEN; HUMANS; LATEX FIXATION TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TWINS;

EID: 0034659434     PISSN: 00493848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0049-3848(00)00187-0     Document Type: Article

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