Epidemiologic profile of peripartum cardiomyopathy in a tertiary care hospital

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 228-233

  Isezuo, Simeon A ^a   Abubakar, Sani A ^a  

^a USMANU DANFODIYO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Custom; Epidemiology; Peripartum cardiomyopathy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; LEG ARTERY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MULTIPARA; NIGERIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERIPARTUM CARDIOMYOPATHY; PREVALENCE; PRIMIPARA; PUERPERIUM; SEASONAL VARIATION; STROKE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA;

EID: 34447530706     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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