Recurrent pregnancy loss: Evaluation and discussion of the causes and their management

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 913-921

  Kiwi, Robert ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOMIFENE CITRATE; DALTEPARIN; ENOXAPARIN; HEPARIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; METFORMIN; PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE; PROGESTERONE;

ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; LUTEAL INSUFFICIENCY; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANT WOMAN; RECURRENT ABORTION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; UTERINE CERVIX CERCLAGE; UTERINE CERVIX INCOMPETENCE; UTERUS MALFORMATION;

EID: 33750045149     PISSN: 08911150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.73.10.913     Document Type: Article

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