Complications of acute fatty liver of pregnancy treated with activated protein C

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 273, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 119-121

  MacLean, Alexandra A ^a   Almeida, Zoyla ^b   Lopez, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Activated protein C; Acute fatty liver; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED PROTEIN C; IMIPENEM; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG EDEMA; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY DISORDER; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTICOAGULANTS; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROTEIN C; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; SEPSIS;

EID: 29144515515     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-004-0716-9     Document Type: Article

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