Maternal deaths due to hypertensive disorders in pregnancy

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 559-567

  Moodley, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

causes of death; cerebrovascular accidents; hypertensive disorders of pregnancy; maternal mortality

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; DIAZEPAM; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; PLACEBO;

BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLLOID; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CONVULSION; CRYSTALLOID; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECLAMPSIA; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HELLP SYNDROME; HUMAN; LIVER RUPTURE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREECLAMPSIA; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; REVIEW; SOUTH AFRICA;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PREGNANCY-INDUCED; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES;

EID: 42949096978     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2007.11.004     Document Type: Review

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