One life ends, another begins: Management of a brain-dead pregnant mother-A systematic review-

BMC Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Esmaeilzadeh, Majid ^a   Dictus, Christine ^a   Kayvanpour, Elham ^a   Sedaghat Hamedani, Farbod ^a   Eichbaum, Michael ^a   Hofer, Stefan ^a   Engelmann, Guido ^a   Fonouni, Hamidreza ^a   Golriz, Mohammad ^a   Schmidt, Jan ^a   Unterberg, Andreas ^a   Mehrabi, Arianeb ^a   Ahmadi, Rezvan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN INJURY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; PREGNANT WOMAN; SURVIVAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; DELIVERY; LIFE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; REVIEW; TRANSPLANTATION;

BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN INJURIES; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 78349293874     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-8-74     Document Type: Article

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