Mechanical heart valves and pregnancy

Fetal and Maternal Medicine Review

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 311-331

  Maxwell, Cynthia ^a   Sermer, Mathew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ENOXAPARIN; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; REVIPARIN; TINZAPARIN; WARFARIN;

BLEEDING; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; CHONDRODYSPLASIA PUNCTATA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DANDY WALKER SYNDROME; DRUG FATALITY; DYSPLASIA; FETUS WASTAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VALVE BIOPROSTHESIS; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HUMAN; HYPOPLASIA; HYPOSPADIAS; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; LIMB MALFORMATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; META ANALYSIS; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PERIPHERAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOPHILIA; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 39549088482     PISSN: 09655395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0965539507002045     Document Type: Review

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