Constipation and pregnancy

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 807-818

  Cullen, Garret ^c   O'Donoghue, Diarmuid ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c NONE

Author keywords

constipation; pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAQUINONE DERIVATIVE; BULKING AGENT; CASTOR OIL; DANTRON; GLYCEROL; ISPAGULA; LACTULOSE; LAXATIVE; MACROGOL; MAGNESIUM CITRATE; METHYLCELLULOSE; MINERAL OIL; SENNA EXTRACT; SEX HORMONE; SODIUM DIHYDROGEN PHOSPHATE; SORBITOL; TEGASEROD; VITAMIN K GROUP;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOATING; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONCEPTION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONSTIPATION; DIET; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG SAFETY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HYPOPROTHROMBINEMIA; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; IRRITABLE COLON; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PUERPERIUM; SIDE EFFECT; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SODIUM RETENTION; SYMPTOM; TERATOGENICITY; WATER ABSORPTION;

CAUSALITY; CONSTIPATION; DIETARY FIBER; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 34548695878     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpg.2007.05.005     Document Type: Article

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