Postpartum morbidity - What we can do

Medical Journal of Malaysia

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 651-657

  Zainur, Rashid Z ^a   Loh, K Y ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Complication; Health; Morbidity; Obstetric; Postpartum

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ANEMIA; BACKACHE; BREAST FEEDING; CONSTIPATION; DYSPAREUNIA; FATIGUE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEART DISEASE; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MASTITIS; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MORBIDITY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PERINEUM INJURY; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; PUERPERIUM; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SEPSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE INCONTINENCE;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PREGNANCY-INDUCED; OBSTETRICS; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PUERPERAL INFECTION; PULMONARY EMBOLISM;

EID: 34147128668     PISSN: 03005283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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