Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Pregnancy

Sleep Medicine Clinics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 603-613

  Kapsimalis, Fotis ^a   Kryger, Meir ^b  

^a HENRY DUNANT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

DECELERATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FETUS HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OXYGEN THERAPY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SNORING; UVULOPALATOPHARYNGOPLASTY;

EID: 64749090230     PISSN: 1556407X     EISSN: 15564088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsmc.2007.07.002     Document Type: Review

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