Managing hyperemesis gravidarum: A multimodal challenge

BMC Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Jueckstock, J K ^a   Kaestner, R ^a   Mylonas, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CIMETIDINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; DIAZEPAM; DIMENHYDRINATE; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; DOXYLAMINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; ESTROGEN; GINGER EXTRACT; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; INFUSION FLUID; MECLOZINE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MIDAZOLAM; MIRTAZAPINE; OMEPRAZOLE; ONDANSETRON; PLACEBO; PREDNISOLONE; PROCHLORPERAZINE; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; PROMETHAZINE; PYRIDOXINE; SEROTONIN; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ACUPUNCTURE; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ALERTNESS; CATHETER INFECTION; CATHETER THROMBOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVERSION DISORDER; CONVULSION; DIETARY INTAKE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG SAFETY; ENDOCARDITIS; EVENING DOSAGE; FEVER; FLUID THERAPY; FOOD POISONING; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HALLUCINATION; HEADACHE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM; HYPERTHYROIDISM; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORNING DOSAGE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; PSYCHOSOMATICS; REVIEW; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SIDE EFFECT; TERATOGENICITY; THERAPY EFFECT; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREMOR; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; VOMITING; DIET THERAPY; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY;

ANTIEMETICS; DIET THERAPY; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM; PREGNANCY;

EID: 77954559815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-8-46     Document Type: Review

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