Underlying medical conditions

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 847-864

  Lombaard, Hennie ^a   Pattinson, Robert C ^b  

^a Maternal and Fetal Medicine Unit   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

emergency care; pre existing medical conditions in pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; DEXAMETHASONE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ESMOLOL; GLUCAGON; GLUCOSE; GUANETHIDINE; HEPARIN; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; IOPANOIC ACID; LEVOTHYROXINE; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; LUGOL; NITRATE; PHENOXYBENZAMINE; POTASSIUM IODIDE; PRAZOSIN; PREDNISOLONE; PROPRANOLOL; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; PYRIDOSTIGMINE; QUININE; RESERPINE; STREPTOKINASE; SULFONYLUREA; UNINDEXED DRUG; UROKINASE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADDISON DISEASE; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ASTHMA; BLEEDING; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG MEGADOSE; ECLAMPSIA; EMERGENCY CARE; EPILEPTIC STATE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; INSULIN TREATMENT; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TACHYCARDIA; THYROID CRISIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCIES; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RESPIRATION DISORDERS;

EID: 50849111072     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2008.06.004     Document Type: Review

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