Planned pregnancy in a heart transplant recipient

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 206-209

  Wasywich, C A ^a,c   Ruygrok, P N ^a   Wilkinson, L ^b   Gibbs, H ^a   Coverdale, H A ^a  

^a GREEN LANE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^c AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Immunosuppression; Pregnancy; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CYCLOSPORIN; DILTIAZEM; NIFEDIPINE;

APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; FERTILIZATION; HEART GRAFT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MORBID OBESITY; PLANNING; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; PUERPERIUM; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE;

EID: 2442595670     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-0903.2004.00530.x     Document Type: Article

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