Stroke and pregnancy

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 240-245

  Davie, C A ^a   O'Brien, P ^b  

^a ROYAL FREE LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; UROKINASE; WARFARIN;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BREAST FEEDING; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DELIVERY; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG SAFETY; ECLAMPSIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOW DRUG DOSE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT CARE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VASCULAR DISEASE; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; CAUSALITY; CESAREAN SECTION; CHORIOCARCINOMA; COMORBIDITY; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MATERNAL AGE; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 39749194968     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2007.116939     Document Type: Review

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