Guidelines for care of pregnant women carrying hepatitis C virus and their infants

Pediatrics International

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 138-140

  Shiraki, Kazuo ^a   Ohto, Hitoshi ^b   Inaba, Noriyuki ^c   Fujisawa, Tomoo ^d   Tajiri, Hitoshi ^e   Kanzaki, Susumu ^a   Matsui, Akira ^f   Morishima, Tsuneo ^g   Goto, Kenji ^h   Kimura, Akihiko ⁱ   Hino, Shigeo ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Eastern Yokohama Hospital   (Japan)

^e OSAKA GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^g OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

ⁱ KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Guideliness; Hepatitis C virus; Mother infant transmission; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; VIRUS RNA;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BREAST FEEDING; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MATERNAL CARE; MIXED INFECTION; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK MANAGEMENT; SHORT SURVEY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

CARRIER STATE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS;

EID: 39049086765     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: 1442200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.2007.02518.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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