Aldosterone, maternal volume status and healthy pregnancies: A cycle of differing views

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1712-1714

  Lindheimer, Marshall D ^a   August, Phyllis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aldosterone; Aldosterone synthase; Fetal outcome; Preeclampsia; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; ALDOSTERONE SYNTHASE;

ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEMODYNAMICS; HYPERTENSION; NOTE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM;

ALDOSTERONE; BLOOD VOLUME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM;

EID: 67651102799     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfp093     Document Type: Note

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