Plasma exchange in a woman with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura or severe pre-eclampsia

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 109, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 961-962

  Obeidat, Basil ^a   MacDougall, Jane ^a   Harding, Kate ^a  

^a Rosie Maternity Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BILIRUBIN; DEXAMETHASONE; ENOXAPARIN; LABETALOL; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; NIFEDIPINE; STEROID; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILDBIRTH; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS LUNG MATURITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HYPERTENSION; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PLASMAPHERESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; THROMBOSIS; ULTRASOUND; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; URINE VOLUME; UTERINE ARTERY; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; PLASMA EXCHANGE; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC;

EID: 0036673787     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2002.01118.x     Document Type: Article

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