Acute coronary syndrome in pregnant women

Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 505-515

  El Deeb, Mohammed ^a   El Menyar, Ayman ^b,c   Gehani, Abdulrazzak ^b,c   Sulaiman, Kadhim ^a  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL   (Oman)

^b HAMAD GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Qatar)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Qatar)

Author keywords

acute coronary syndromes; myocardial infarction; peripartum; pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ABCIXIMAB; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONIST; ALTEPLASE; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ATENOLOL; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; CREATINE KINASE; DILTIAZEM; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; EPLERENONE; EPTIFIBATIDE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; FONDAPARINUX; HEPARIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; NITRATE; SPIRONOLACTONE; STREPTOKINASE; TENECTEPLASE; TIROFIBAN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TROPONIN; UNINDEXED DRUG; UROKINASE;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AORTA COARCTATION; APNEA; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY EMBOLISM; BLEEDING; BRADYCARDIA; BREAST FEEDING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISSECTION; CORONARY ARTERY EMBOLISM; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG ELUTING STENT; DRUG EXCRETION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG SAFETY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FATALITY; FEMALE; FETUS MALFORMATION; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HEART SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INCIDENCE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; LABOR; LOW DRUG DOSE; MATERNAL AGE; NEWBORN DISEASE; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RACE; RADIATION HAZARD; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; RISK MANAGEMENT; SCREENING; SKULL DEFECT; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; TERATOGENICITY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 79955492778     PISSN: 14779072     EISSN: 17448344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erc.11.19     Document Type: Review

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