Evidence based case report: Corticosteroids for HELLP (haemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelets) syndrome

British Medical Journal

Volumn 329, Issue 7460, 2004, Pages 270-272

  Clenney, Timothy L ^a   Viera, Anthony J ^a  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; HELLP SYNDROME; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MATERNAL CARE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORBIDITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEINURIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; ADULT; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; HELLP SYNDROME; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 4043088419     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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