Delivery After Prior Cesarean: Maternal Morbidity and Mortality

Clinics in Perinatology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 297-309

  Cheng, Yvonne W ^a   Eden, Karen B ^b   Marshall, Nicole ^b   Pereira, Leonardo ^b   Caughey, Aaron B ^c   Guise, Jeanne Marie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cesarean section; Evidence review; Pregnancy; Pregnancy complications; VBAC

Indexed keywords

BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY MASS; CESAREAN SECTION; ENDOMETRITIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABOR INDUCTION; LABOR MANAGEMENT; MALPRESENTATION; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; PLACENTA ACCRETA; PLACENTA PREVIA; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SURGICAL INJURY; TRIAL OF LABOR; UTERUS RUPTURE; VAGINA BLEEDING; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; VAGINAL BIRTH AFTER CESAREAN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958011206     PISSN: 00955108     EISSN: 15579840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clp.2011.03.012     Document Type: Review

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