Pregnancy-related maternal deaths

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 220-236

  Prahlow, Joseph A ^a,c   Barnard, Jeffrey J ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c South Bend Medical Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Death; Forensic; Maternal; Mortality; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM SULFATE; OXYTOCIN;

ACUTE FATTY LIVER OF PREGNANCY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIR EMBOLISM; AMNION FLUID EMBOLISM; ARTERY DISSECTION; BLOOD VESSEL RUPTURE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM INJURY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSTOCIA; ECLAMPSIA; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBOLISM; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GESTATIONAL TROPHOBLASTIC DISEASE; HELLP SYNDROME; HEMATOMA; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INDUCED ABORTION; INFECTION; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS OF PREGNANCY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MATERNAL DISEASE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MYOCARDITIS; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PERIPARTUM CARDIOMYOPATHY; PLACENTA PREVIA; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PUERPERAL HEMATOMA; PUERPERIUM; RETAINED PLACENTA; REVIEW; RUPTURE; RUPTURED ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SUICIDE; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TROPHOBLASTIC DISEASE; TROPHOBLASTIC TISSUE EMBOLISM; UTERUS INVERSION; UTERUS RUPTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEXAS;

EID: 4344620070     PISSN: 01957910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.paf.0000136445.54246.10     Document Type: Review

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