Pregnancy and stroke risk in women

Women's Health

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 363-374

  Tate, Jessica ^a   Bushnell, Cheryl ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

hemorrhage; pregnancy; stroke; women

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; PLACEBO;

AMNION FLUID EMBOLISM; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTERY DISSECTION; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CESAREAN SECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MORTALITY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPARTUM CARDIOMYOPATHY; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THROMBOPHILIA;

ASPIRIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PREGNANCY-INDUCED; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 79957579118     PISSN: 17455057     EISSN: 17455065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/whe.11.19     Document Type: Review

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