The influence of maternal age on the outcomes of pregnancies complicated by bleeding at less than 12 weeks

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 116-118

  Mbugua Gitau, Godfrey ^a,b   Liversedge, Helen ^a   Goffey, Dawn ^a   Hawton, Annemarie ^a   Liversedge, Neil ^a   Taylor, Myles ^a  

^a ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b DERRIFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bleeding; Maternal age; Pregnancy complications

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS MALFORMATION; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMMINENT ABORTION; LIVE BIRTH; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HOSPITALIZATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UTERUS BLEEDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59249104336     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: 16000412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016340802621005     Document Type: Article

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