Cerebrovascular disease and pregnancy

Fetal and Maternal Medicine Review

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 114-162

  Katz, Maya ^a   Lesko, Jennifer ^b   Kirchoff Torres, Kathryn F ^a   Zach, Victor ^a   Levine, Steven R ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Prentice Women's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; ENALAPRIL; HEPARIN; HYDRALAZINE; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; LABETALOL; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; MAGNESIUM; MANNITOL; METHOTREXATE; MIFEPRISTONE; NIFEDIPINE; NIMODIPINE; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; AMNION FLUID EMBOLISM; ANASTOMOSIS; ANEMIA; ANEURYSM; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTERY DISSECTION; ASCITES; BLEEDING DISORDER; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN VASCULITIS; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CESAREAN SECTION; CHORIOCARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CRANIECTOMY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM; HYPERTENSION; HYPOPITUITARISM; LABORATORY TEST; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MIGRAINE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PROTEINURIA; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; SEIZURE; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TRACHEOSTOMY; ULTRASOUND; VASCULAR DISEASE; VOMITING;

EID: 77955901717     PISSN: 09655395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0965539510000033     Document Type: Review

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