Laboratory reference intervals during pregnancy, delivery and the early postpartum period

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 237-248

  Klajnbard, Anna ^a   Szecsi, Pal B ^a   Colov, Nina P ^a   Andersen, Malene R ^a   Jørgensen, Maja ^a   Bjørngaard, Brian ^a   Barfoed, Anne ^a   Haahr, Katrine ^a   Stender, Steen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Clinical chemistry tests; Female; Human; Pregnancy trimesters; Reference value

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; IRON; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIOTHYRONINE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRANSFERRIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UREA; URIC ACID; VERY LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BASOPHIL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DELIVERY; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODILUTION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IRON BINDING CAPACITY; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MOLECULAR SIZE; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PUERPERIUM; REFERENCE VALUE; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; TRANSFERRIN BLOOD LEVEL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTERS; REFERENCE VALUES; SERUM ALBUMIN; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 76649098310     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2010.033     Document Type: Article

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