Case 21-2010: A request for retrieval of oocytes from a 36-year-old woman with anoxic brain injury

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 363, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 276-

  Greer, David M ^a,b   Styer, Aaron K ^a,b   Toth, Thomas L ^a,b   Kindregan, Charles P ^c   Romero, Javier M ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HEPARIN; MANNITOL; PROPOFOL; PROTAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; COLLAPSE; COMA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; FLIGHT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG EMBOLISM; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; POSTHUMOUS CONCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIAGNOSIS; ETHICS; HEART ARREST; INFORMED CONSENT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PULMONARY ARTERY; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ADULT; CRYOPRESERVATION; ETHICS COMMITTEES, CLINICAL; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; POSTHUMOUS CONCEPTION; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; THIRD-PARTY CONSENT; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 77954628748     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1004360     Document Type: Article

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