Eclampsia: Still a problem in Bangladesh

MedGenMed Medscape General Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Begum, Mosammat Rashida ^a   Begum, Anowara ^a   Quadir, Ehsan ^b   Akhter, Sayeba ^a   Shamsuddin, Latifa ^c  

^a DHAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (Bangladesh)

^b Mitford Hospital   (Bangladesh)

^c BANGABANDHU SHEIKH MUJIB MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; DIAZEPAM; FUROSEMIDE; HYDRALAZINE; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; METHYLDOPA; NIFEDIPINE; OXYGEN; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BANGLADESH; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CESAREAN SECTION; CONVULSION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HELLP SYNDROME; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABOR COMPLICATION; LABOR INDUCTION; LIVER FAILURE; LUNG EDEMA; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRENATAL PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; PUERPERIUM; RISK REDUCTION; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTICONVULSANTS; BANGLADESH; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; PREGNANCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 25144494164     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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