Liver emergencies during pregnancy

Gastroenterology Clinics of North America

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1213-1227

  Doshi, Sheeten ^a   Zucker, Stephen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BUDD CHIARI SYNDROME; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; HELLP SYNDROME; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS E; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FATTY DEGENERATION; LIVER RUPTURE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; WILSON DISEASE;

EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0348110648     PISSN: 08898553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0889-8553(03)00096-7     Document Type: Review

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