Pregnancy in patients with beta-thalassaemia major: Maternal and foetal outcome

Acta Haematologica

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 15-17

  Mancuso, Alfredo ^a,b   Giacobbe, Annamaria ^a   De Vivo, Antonio ^a   Ardita, Francesca Venera ^a   Meo, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HEART FUNCTION; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY COLIC; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL WELFARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; THALASSEMIA; URINALYSIS; VIRUS INFECTION; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADULT; BETA-THALASSEMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 40549126925     PISSN: 00015792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000112942     Document Type: Article

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