Maternal Mortality following Diagnostic 2nd-Trimester Amniocentesis

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 195-198

  Elchalal, Uriel ^a   Shachar, Inbar Ben ^a   Peleg, Dan ^b   Schenker, Joseph G ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HASHARON HOSPITAL   (Israel)

Author keywords

2nd trimester; Amniocentesis; Escherichia coli; Maternal mortality; Sepsis; Septic shock

Indexed keywords

AZTREONAM; CLINDAMYCIN; GENTAMICIN;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LEUKOPENIA; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SEPSIS; SEPTIC ABORTION;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND;

EID: 1142298424     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000075150     Document Type: Article

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