Fatal bleeding following delivery: A manifestation of the vascular type of Ehlers-Danlos' syndrome

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 173-175

  Bjorck M ^a   Pigg, M ^a   Kragsterman, B ^a   Bergqvist, D ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bleeding; Delivery; Ehlers Danlos' syndrome; Rupture; Subclavian artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DELIVERY; EHLERS DANLOS SYNDROME; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRIMIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; UTERUS BLEEDING; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; EHLERS-DANLOS SYNDROME; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY;

EID: 34047176482     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000097659     Document Type: Article

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