Pre-eclampsia: A lifelong disorder

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 179, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 182-184

  Brown, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTIGEN; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 5 LEIDEN; CLONIDINE; FMS LIKE TYROSINE KINASE 1; GROWTH FACTOR; HYDRALAZINE; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; METHYLDOPA; NIFEDIPINE; OXPRENOLOL; PROTHROMBIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BLOOD CLOT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COITUS; CONVULSION; ECLAMPSIA; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FATHER; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GESTATION PERIOD; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOXIA; IMMUNE STATUS; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATERNALISM; PLACENTA DISORDER; PREDICTION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURITY; PROPHYLAXIS; PROTEINURIA; RISK; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TROPHOBLAST;

EID: 0041425017     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05495.x     Document Type: Editorial

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