Etiology and prevention of stillbirth

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 193, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1923-1935

  Fretts, Ruth C ^a  

^a HARVARD VANGUARD MEDICAL ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal death; Prevention; Risk factors; Stillbirth

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CD45RO ANTIGEN; HEMOGLOBIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; LUPUS ANTICOAGULANT; MISOPROSTOL; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN A;

AMNION FLUID; AUTOPSY; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COUNSELING; DATA BASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HYPOXIA; FETUS WASTAGE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEMODILUTION; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION; INFERTILITY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LABOR INDUCTION; MACROSOMIA; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MEDLINE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OBESITY; PATHOGENESIS; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREECLAMPSIA; PRENATAL SCREENING; PREVALENCE; PREVENTION; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; RHESUS ISOIMMUNIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; STILLBIRTH; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOPHILIA;

ABRUPTIO PLACENTAE; BIRTH WEIGHT; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MATERNAL AGE; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PREGNANCY-ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN-A; RISK FACTORS; STILLBIRTH; THROMBOPHILIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 28444483211     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2005.03.074     Document Type: Review

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