Scleroderma pregnancy: Can the price be too high to pay?

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 979-981

  Østensen, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSENTAN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ENDOTHELIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 59149104256     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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